Review: Love And Other Words
I don't know why but looking at the covers of books written by Christina Lauren always provides me with some sort of inner comfort. I'm not sure if it's aesthetically pleasing, but there is some sort of inner level satisfaction when I see the covers for Christina Lauren's novels. Maybe they're like my comfort covers or something.
Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.
Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.
QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 3.9/5, IF NOT FOR THE MISCOMMUNICATION TROPE, I WOULD HAVE RATED IT MORE.
Possible Trigger Tags:
1. Death
2. Miscommunication
3. Grief
4. Panic attacks
5. Mentions of infidelity
WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE BOOK'S:
1. Writing Quality: For some reason or the other, the writing style kind of actually relaxed me. I don't know what to actually describe how I felt, but I kind of actually felt relaxed. Part of it might be because the fact that the story was quite easy flowing. There wasn't any dilly dallying, or any complicated phrases that would take me a lot of time to get through or just it's pace. It's quite moderately paced, and it's written in first POV without a change in POV. I was just relaxed okay?
2. Character Development: I kind of feel like the characters were kind of unidimensional to me in a sense. I know I haven't said this in a while but it is true. While I love Elliot and Macy for carrying out that friends to lovers to strangers to lovers trope very beautifully, I just feel like that they wouldn't be able to exist as normal people in the real world. I just can't imagine them outside their bubble. I just feel like if they were faced with real world problems, they'd have trouble actually getting used to it. I cannot imagine them as actual people, no matter how hard I try. Kind of sad cuz I really liked this book.
3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: I guess it would be a 8/10. I panicked at first because the PDF I owned was about 3.1k pages and my mind went "WHO IN THE FUCKING SHIT WRITES A BOOK THAT LONG." and then when I checked it out it was like one single paragraph on one page. You know how inconvenient that was? Like seriously, the scrolling was a pain.
4. Plot: Plot wise, I don't think there was much to it, you know. Like the book kept alternating between the past and the present. While the past is definitely interesting and kept moving along as to what happened that caused the fallout between Elliot and Macy, the present is just as flat. The miscommunication trope is heavy here which is literally one of my least favourite tropes. Like seriously, sit down for once and clear shit up before deciding to disappear forever. And walking out on each other, jeez, please, just it takes an hour max to clear stuff up. The present seemed pretty much plotless or uninteresting to me.
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