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If Only You Hurt by Stefanie Castro
5.0
This was book 3 in Stefanie’s “If Only” series and I was absolutely stoked to read Laney and Grants story. I do believe these books can be read as standalone if you WANTED, but because it is basically 3 separate love stories within a huge family/friend group with some cross-overs it’s best to read them together in this order: If Only You Knew, then If Only You Fell, THEN If Only You Hurt.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆
Since book one I have absolutely LOVED Stefanie’s writing which only continued throughout the series. Stefanie has a way of writing extremely emotional situations that makes you really FEEL those emotions like you’re IN THE BOOK. And yes, all 3 books were VERY emotional. If you love easy to read but emotion packed romances. You’ll love the writing in these.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒
I already adored Laney and Grant from the first two books. They’re introduced as children and you get to watch them grow which is amazing. Laney is fierce but broken dealing with severe PTSD from trauma no one should ever experience and Grant is ever the patient man. THE PERFECT MAN. Reading things from their POVs as both children and adults made me love them even more.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐓
Simply beautiful. It was raw, emotional and hard to read at times, but the love story between those two was everything. Even though it was hard I will say the read was more relaxed than that of books 1 & 2 just because these two grew up together and ALWAYS had each other from diapers. I kind of had an idea what was going to come from Easter eggs left in the other books but leave it to Stefanie to still throw a couple curve balls in there lol! It was a beautiful conclusion to the series if I say so myself.
⚠️THIS BOOK CONTAINS TRIGGERS SUCH AS:⚠️
- surprise pregnancy
- Miscarriage
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆
Since book one I have absolutely LOVED Stefanie’s writing which only continued throughout the series. Stefanie has a way of writing extremely emotional situations that makes you really FEEL those emotions like you’re IN THE BOOK. And yes, all 3 books were VERY emotional. If you love easy to read but emotion packed romances. You’ll love the writing in these.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒
I already adored Laney and Grant from the first two books. They’re introduced as children and you get to watch them grow which is amazing. Laney is fierce but broken dealing with severe PTSD from trauma no one should ever experience and Grant is ever the patient man. THE PERFECT MAN. Reading things from their POVs as both children and adults made me love them even more.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐓
Simply beautiful. It was raw, emotional and hard to read at times, but the love story between those two was everything. Even though it was hard I will say the read was more relaxed than that of books 1 & 2 just because these two grew up together and ALWAYS had each other from diapers. I kind of had an idea what was going to come from Easter eggs left in the other books but leave it to Stefanie to still throw a couple curve balls in there lol! It was a beautiful conclusion to the series if I say so myself.
⚠️THIS BOOK CONTAINS TRIGGERS SUCH AS:⚠️
- surprise pregnancy
- Miscarriage