Only Love Can Hurt Like This

I‘m sorry aber ich bin enttäuscht🥲 Zuallererst aber: Paige‘s Schreibstil ist so unfassbar gut, ich bin durch die Seiten geflogen und das Setting wurde so gut beschrieben, dass ich echt dahin wollte🥹 (wann geht mein Flieger?🌝) Das Buch ist nur aus Wrens POV geschrieben, das hat mich iwie die Gefühle von Anders nicht ganz nachfühlen lassen.👀 Leider war mir die Story im Gesamten auch zu oberflächlich. Wren hat sich gefühlt nach 2 Tagen in Anders verliebt und ich dachte mir nur so „wo? WANN?“ ihr habt nedmal 24h miteinander verbracht“🥲 Der Bruder von Anders hatte auch iwie Geheimnisse (so kam es zumindest rüber), da war dann aber doch nichts und das hat mich leider auch verwirrt, weil da echt Potential da war und ich dachte wenn das schon öfters thematisiert wird, muss da doch was im Busch sein🤓 Das Geheimnis von Anders war im Gegensatz dazu null schockierend für mich und dementsprechend leider auch nichts was das Ruder rumreißen konnte☹️ Auf english-booktok und auch auf dem Buch selbst wird damit geworben, dass es ein erschütterndes Geheimnis gibt und es sehr emotional ist. (Ich warte immer noch🥲) Für mich wars nichts, vielleicht aber für euch💗

Oh wow… what an emotional story !! I’m sorry if this review will be quite short, it’s currently 1:35 am and I have school tomorrow but I wanted to finish this book 😭. This review will have spoilers. Okay so firstly, I rlly liked the writing style, it was easy to read. The story begins with Wren and how her fiancée Scott falls in love with someone else. She decides to visit her father and stepfamily on their farm. Wren felt really out of place and let out which was so understandable. The family didn’t want to overstep Wrens Boundaries and kind of left space between them but Wren took it a completely wrong way which was also interesting to see. I honestly loved so much how her relationship with her step-/family improved. The way Bailey (her stepsister) and Wren really became sisters and not strangers was so cute, their friendship blossomed fr. I’m not gonna lie I thought first that Bailey would cheat on her husband with Jonas (Anders brother) but fortunately not !! And while we are talking about him I really liked Jonas too he was such a good character. It was also cute how Bailey and his friendship blossomed since the first day they met. Anders was also a good character who has gone through so much. The biggest twist was how his wife (Laurie) wasn’t REALLY dead. I forgot what it’s called what she had but basically her body’s still 'alive' but she’s basically gone; she doesn’t feel any pain, doesn’t feel love and just basically doesn’t feel anything and she was also in a wheelchair and was just resting in bed. At first I found it boring for some time cause nothing really happened and it was kinda too much of a ‘slow burn' for me but yeahhh. I personally think that Anders should have told Wren that she’s not technically dead but he still let her believe that like ykwim. It was a very slow burn I mean we got the first kiss on page 351!! 😭. The thing is, I still kinda understood both sides near the end. Wren was just completely hear broken and Anders didn’t want to betray anybody and was literally drowning in that feeling and state. At the end, Laurie ‘finally' died and that poor girl was finally put to rest. Anders and Wren finally got married which was super cute and it hinted at the end that Wren was pregnant 🫣. Basically, I found the book boring in some points but also very emotional and I generally liked it so yeahhh.

the epilogue by far was my fav bit. anders had his flaws but overall i loved this book