Summary
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren is a love story about two best friends who have known eachother since when they were kids. They develop a surreal bond over their love for reading. Spending weekends together in their closet which is nothing less than a sanctuary for them, they promise to be each other's first and cherish their friendship their entire life but torn by destiny and drifted apart by misunderstanding, they lose touch of the reality and drifts apart. The blow of loosing her father leaves Macy broken. Hurt by Elliot's drunken mistake, Macy runs away from everything with a promise to never look back But time brings them together once again and this time around, Macy can't run away
About the characters
Macy Sorensen, grew up in a loving household. She always thought her parents love for each other, all-consuming. She didn't want anything less but at the same time it scares her. Her mother's death left a void in Macy's chest. Growing up without a mother and with a father who loved her to bits but found comfort in silence, she found it hard to put her feeling into words. As a child, Macy always found it difficult to open up to people. After living most of her adulthood in a daze of alcohol and drugs somehow She manages to become a Pediatrics. But she never gets over her knack of running from her problems rather than solving the
Elliot Petropoulos, is a nerd who loves reading. Even as a young boy, he spent most of his time reading with Macy in her closet. He fell in love with Macy and always wanted to carry their relationship forward in the outside world which exists beyond Macy's closet but one mistake on a drunken night changes everything.
Theme of the novel
The novel is about second chances, it's about forgiveness and about letting people in. In the novel, Macy always found it hard to put across her feelings and it continued as an adult too. She choose a mundane life with a simple setting over her love because doing so would require her to conquer her demons of the past. But eventually she realises that in order to find her true happiness, she needs to put her past to rest.
Lauren, in this novel, talked about the void- the death of loved ones, creates in our lives. She also shed light on the mental state of the children who loses their parents at a young age and how if effects their adulthood.
Lauren, through this book, attempts to bring out the emotions that people tend to usually avoid talking about. She showed the vulnerability of a girl whose world fell apart when she was merely seventeen years old, through Macy. Along with it, Lauren also showed that love makes its own way and what is meant to be, will always find you.
My opinion
This novel is a slow paced romance where the characters are trying to find their way along the life which surprisingly leads them to each other. It's divided in 'now' and 'then' which bothered me a little because I couldn't connect with the characters that much but at the same time, Lauren wrote this book in a way that I wanted to know the backstory of the characters. It was a pretty easy going love story with a mystery that kept it going.
This is my first time reading Christina Lauren's book and I had a great time reading this one so I'm definitely looking forward to more of her works.
Thankyou!
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