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Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

24 reviews

theinstabookworm's review

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

After not having luck with Christina Lauren's books, I told myself I wouldn't read any more from them. But, I continued to see this one all over, so I decided to give it a try. 

I definitely think this is their most cohesive novel in terms of the writing. It wasn't obvious that the book had been written by two people, which is what I had a hard time with when reading their other books. I've seen this compared to EVERY SUMMER AFTER by Carley Fortune, but I have to say I liked ESA more. It took me so long to read this and I think it could have been 100ish pages shorter. This was a book completely centered around miscommunication. Like all books with this trope, all they had to do was talk to each other. But no, let's go years not talking because we have different interpretations of how things went down between us. 🙄😑 I liked the Then chapters more than the Now chapters. I probably won't read another Christina Lauren book, but never say never.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Car accident

readinglanes_07's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Car accident, Cancer, and Terminal illness

livvmarks's review

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The spicy scenes with them as teenagers was just a bit odd and felt uncomfortable, especially when Macy was 3/4 months away from turning 18. Like how hard would it be to just wait a little bit in the storyline? Ruined the book for me personally, also just not a fan of main characters being separated for a long time- especially 11 years :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Alcohol, Drug use, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Sexual content, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Gore

joellemariel's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Car accident, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, and Medical content

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted relaxing sad slow-paced

• 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

serendipity421's review against another edition

fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Car accident

Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Drug use

nzmerchant's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Cute characters and love that they had a mutual love for books. Every book lovers dream! But the

cheating plot

really ruined it for me. And having

her dad die on the same evening?????

that’s evil… felt a bit disconnected from the book towards the end - might have been a me problem but I also felt like I lost interest based on how they reacted to the Rachel situation too idk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, and Infidelity

Minor: Drug abuse

kaitlinmarks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer and Infidelity

Minor: Drug abuse and Alcohol

ritugp01's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I just didn't like it, but I'm glad I read it nonetheless.  The following is spoilers galore:

The reveal with her dad could be seen coming from a mile away, and I felt like it was such a contrived cop out to the story. I also wish we saw more of the time in-between their reunion, with like more information on how she chose medicine and her life as a doctor. I also wanted to know about him because if anything, his path seemed most likely to be medical. I also felt like Elliot was better only in comparison to Sean, but I failed to see his own appeal independently. I feel like to an extent, the characters despite being a "character driven" book, felt like half-realized carboard cut outs that tend to wax poetic. Although, all this said doesn't mean I dislike it, it was still written really well and certain passages stuck out and will stay with me for a long time. On the final note, I didn't like how quickly we glossed over Elliot literally being a victim and the associated trauma with that. It definitely needed to be addressed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, and Rape

Minor: Sexual content, Child death, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Rape, Grief, and Drug abuse

elizabethledoux's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

• 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 wish i would have read this book in high school because i related so much to teenage Macy. i loved this book. typically, im not the biggest fan of the second chance storyline or switching timelines between now + then, but i couldn’t put this one down. definitely my favorite christina lauren i’ve read so far

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Drug abuse