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Love and Other Words

By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
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 After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance but how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? From the New York Times bestselling authors of the “delightful” (Shelf Awareness) The Unhoneymooners.

The story of the heart can never be unwritten.

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. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Women's Fiction Heartfelt Tear-jerking

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Loved the book. It has a wonderful couple at the center that had me binge listening. It definitely lives up to the hype and all of the recommendations on social media.

But there’s a few things I have to mention, because it annoyed me…

The supposedly Danishness of the father is SO wrong writes the Dane 1. No way would his first name be Duncan unless he’s half American 2. When will Americans get in their head that æbleskiver are only eaten around Christmas time. Æbleskiver are not a breakfast food and they are seasonal. Stop doing Danish research in Solvang, California.

Lives up to the hype

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Oh wow, what an amazing book. I loved relationship between Elliot and Macy, how they were soulmates right from the start, and cried when the story unfurled regarding the events that happened that kept them apart for so long. The book could only end in the way it did, and I’m so glad it! I know I will listen to this again and again. I have not read a Christina Lauren book that I did not love - as a pair, they are absolutely two of my favourite authors.

I also want to praise Erin Mallon. She is such a talented narrator; her ability to convey and voice both female and male characters is second to none. She has been my favourite female narrator for some time, and this book only cemented this view.

I completely adored this book - just get it!

Just beautiful!

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This is beautiful! Second chance at love! I laughed and cried with this audiobook! loved it

so many emotions loved it

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This author just knows how to make you fall in love. You really care, you are there, living it all with them and then its over, but it is worth every single second. Well worth the listen quite like Holidaze. Narrator great too, really helps you live in it.

Just lovely

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Review I feel the need to just draw breath because I’ve powered through this book in 24 hours (thank you, weekend). The story compelled me to not let go until I was done and I was helpless to disobey. Such is the power of this story and these characters.

It’s been a while since I’ve fallen in love with a lead character so fully as I did with Elliot. Macy was definitely likeable and I grew to love her but Elliot reeled me in with his congruence very quickly. Macy and her dad were grieving when they bought their weekend bolt hole which was next door to a bustling family house. Elliot became Macy’s honest best friend, her confidante, her everything. Through then and now, we saw them grow together and that they’d had an eleven year gap between meeting again in their late 20s.

I felt so many emotions reading their story, I felt like a family witness. It hurt me, I hoped, I wished and I cried. I didn’t know where the story was going to go but I can only say that I felt a great impending heartbreak on the horizon. This sense of what was to come, had me racing to read more, to find out.

These characters wormed their way into my heart and I feel a little reluctant to let them go. I utterly enjoyed this book, despite the emotions, because of the emotions. I hope for more of this genre from Christina Lauren and I will need a hard copy of this on my shelf. Fantastic narration.

All consuming

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