Christina Lauren's "Love and Other Words" is their best work. I loved reading "Roomies" and "Dating You/Hating You", but this book is just beyond. I cried, laughed, and smiled. Macy and Elliot's story has all the feels. Oh and I couldn't put it down, so I finished reading this book in a day. I look forward to more titles from Christina Lauren!

5 “I’ve Loved You My Whole Life” Stars!
Macy Sorensen is a 28 yr. old woman living in San Francisco. She works in pediatrics in critical care, and is engaged to a great guy. She lives a life she’s content with, but doesn’t ever fully invest her heart. Then a chance encounter with the guy who used to be her entire world makes her feel completely unraveled. Her perfect little life she’s created is turned upside down. She hasn’t seen Elliot Petropoulos in 11 years since she abruptly pushed him out of her life. He was her first real friend, her first love, her first everything.

Macy met Elliot when she was 13, and he was 14. She grew up in Berkeley, & after the death of her mother, her dad bought them a cabin they could vacation at. Elliot lived next door and they became very close. From the start things were always easy and effortless between them. Macy could always talk to Elliot about anything, & he was her safe place. He was her person, the one who understood her best.

Elliot can’t believe he’s seeing Macy again. He’s never loved another woman, and hasn’t seen her since high school. After a decade apart he will do whatever it takes to reconnect with her.

Macy soon realizes she never got over Elliot. There was a hole in her heart that had never healed that only he could fill. Seeing him again, she has to face that she’s still in love with him, and probably always will be. She’s spent the last 11 years angry & hurt. It’s time to face the past, and move forward.

This was such a beautiful emotional story told between past & present about two soulmates that meet when they are both in 8th grade. They become each other’s home. I adored Elliot from the skinny nerd to the sexy man. His heart is absolutely breathtaking. This was the first women’s fiction novel from Christina Lauren, & it was fantastic. It had a completely different feel to it than the other books I’ve read by them. This is one of those books that touched my heart & I’ll think about for a while. Just loved it!

This is a second chance at love story. Macy and Elliot meet when they are in their early teens. He becomes a source of comfort to her after having lost her mom at ten years old. The story is told in then and now. It is great getting the backstory but at times wanting to get back to the now to see whats happening next. I love second chance love but after finding out the original reason they were torn apart its both sad and somewhat frustrating. But as with life simple misunderstanding happens all the time. I would have loved an epilogue after the last now just to see after all this time of yearning for each other what happened next. Review on goodreads and amazon.com

Love and Other Words is the story of Macy and Elliot, childhood friends who became something bigger and then were broken apart. When Macy runs into Elliot in a Berkeley, coffee shop 11 years after the last time they've seen one another, nothing has changed and yet everything has. Can they find their way back together or is their time over?

Their story unfolds in chapters that shift between the past and the present in a compelling way that made me read the entire book in one session. But it won't be the only time I read it, because I have every intention of starting it over again when I need an escape from my kid's gymnastics class. Christina Lauren's first foray into women's fiction isn't one you'll want to miss. I hope they continue to write in this genre. Well done.

Wow - I have loved everything I have read thus far of Christina Lauren but this book blew them all out of the water. 5 stars, I can't wait until it comes out in April so I can give it as a gift to everyone I know!