If you’re a sucker for the Folklore love triangle between Betty, James & Augustine, then we have a book for you. Without giving any spoilers, this book is told from the future (like Cardigan) but also references past points in time (like Betty and August). So we are getting different glimpses of the same story from multiple perspectives that are all leading up to the same moment in the end. The simplicity in Christina Lauren’s writing style is comforting. It’s not flashy or extra; it tells a simple love story between a boy and a girl that fall in love and grow up together. In this episode, we go into emotions of young love, feeling like you don’t belong, and loss of a loved one. We talk about the character growth of both Macy and Elliot and how their love story is a reflection of Taylor Swift’s song from her Folklore album: Cardigan.

Love & Other Words is written by Christina Lauren. Other books in her anthology include: The Unhoneymooners, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Something Wilder. Check out the book summary written below:

“After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words. 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 devouring 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.”

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