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samflowerv6's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“Favorite word?” he whispers.
I don’t even hesitate: “You.”
“Why can’t everyone be like you?”
“I can be enough of your world that it feels like everyone is.”
“I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”
“Well, you’re more, too. You’re my best everything.”
“You broke up with her last night?”
He nods … “You’re the love of my life. I assumed I would get over you eventually, but seeing you yesterday?” He shakes his head. “I couldn’t go home to someone else and pretend to love her with everything I have.”
“I think of her everywhere. She is everywhere, in every moment, and also she’s in no one moment. She misses every single one of my moments and I’m not sure who that is harder for: me surviving here without her, or her without me, existing wherever she is.”
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol
tabbed_reads2much's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent
andreareiter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Death of parent
katieconrad's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity and Car accident
Minor: Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol
annalovesbookss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
stephfauteux's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Basically, their childhood best friends turned lovers then something happens and they don’t speak for 11 years until they run into each other, quiet literally, at a coffee shop but now their both in different relationships etc. The book switches back and forth between when they were kids and present day, both storylines heading toward what caused the fallout, until they converge with the night they stopped talking. While the reason they had a falling out is anticlimactic and predictable, everything else from that day is now and OUCH I really didn’t see that coming and Christina Lauren really didn’t need to do us like that.
Would have gotten 5 stars from me if it wasn’t for the cause of their falling out tainting their relationship for me. 🤷🏻♀️
Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity and Terminal illness
Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol
christinemcgoveran's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment
thatswhatshanread's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I feel numb after finishing this one, because I felt everything else while reading it. It didn’t take me long at all to pour through it, but somehow I’m left thinking I’d been inside those words for years and years. It was so comforting, real, sweet, honest, deep, heartbreaking… and other words.
To say this is a ‘great romance’ is doing it a disservice—it is an overwhelming portrait of every pulsing vein that makes up a contemporary romance. The chemistry between Elliot and Macy, built up so naturally, stretched into an aching slow burn, the intensity of raw hurt and mixed signals, dialogue dripping with honesty, the painful passage of time lost. Short chapters switching between “then” and “now” made it all the more heart racing. Would love prevail?
This isn’t a romcom, like the other books by Lauren that I’ve read. I adore romcoms, but I adore real stories even more. Real characters, real emotions, real loss, real situations. And this is real, this is all-encompassing, this is love.
Lauren’s full-hearted leap with this romantic drama is an instant winner for me. Hard to believe it was their first foray into women’s lit. What a home run.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Car accident
Minor: Addiction and Pregnancy
stellabyproxy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This slow-burn, ironically, left me at a loss for “other words”. As a 19 year old girl, reading about Macy and Elliot’s younger selves made me reflect on my adolescence and draw parallels to my own younger self, nose-deep in a book and disconnected from the world. And made me eternally grateful for the years I shared with my own guy best friend. I, too, hope to find an “everyfriend” with the capacity for love that these two shared.
“Favourite word?“ Infinite ❤️
Graphic: Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Death of parent
Minor: Infidelity and Car accident