Love and Other Words 2018 - Christina Lauren

Written by Christina Lauren
Read by Erin Mallon, 2018 Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: MP3

A new copy was requested due to audio quality. This copy was downloaded from Overdrive through the Library a few years ago and should have no sound issues. Size not compatible for reseeding Logan’s existing copy.

Current Goodreads rating:4.23. 8 hours, 21 minutes

Love, loss, friendship, and the betrayals of the past all collide in this first fiction novel from NY Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren.

The heart may hide, but it never forgets.

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 teen 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 reading 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.