All the Ways You Break Me (Sandy Harbor #2)

Author: Melissa Wiesner Title: All the Ways You Break Me Publisher: Bookouture Date Published: 02/17/2026

Read Dates: 01/25/2026- 01/26/2026
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

All the Ways You Break Me is a dual POV, dual timeline second-chance romance. Josie and Ian met the summer they were 18, and they were falling for each other, only to have things end abruptly when tragedy struck Ian's family, and Josie's family left the island. More than a decade later, Josie has returned home for her sister's wedding to Ian's best friend, and the two are thrown together again and again during the week before the wedding. Old feelings are coming to the surface, but Josie has a secret that might ruin everything.

I was not expecting such an emotional read! This was different from what I expected, but very well done and worth the read. I do wish I had paid attention and realized it was book two in a series, there were some references to the previous book that I felt like I was missing a little, but not enough to make this book hard to follow or difficult to read. I really felt for Josie and Ian, and also for Josie's mother and the choice she had to make.

Ten years after fleeing Sandy Harbor Island, Josie’s hometown is the last place she wants to be. But she’s maid of honor for her sister Madeline and determined to give her the beachside wedding of her dreams.

Josie hadn’t reckoned on the best Ian. One look in his sky-blue eyes and she’s back to the summer she turned eighteen, waitressing at the sailing club. She never expected the son of the island’s wealthiest property developer to notice her. But sun-kissed days out on the water showed Josie that Ian had the kindest heart and biggest dreams.

Their future had only just begun when Josie’s life was torn apart. She can never tell Ian why she ran away. She’ll just avoid him all week and leave as soon as the wedding is over.

But Ian’s oceanside cottage is the only place to stay, and wedding events throw them together in all kinds of ways. It’s clear from every lingering glance and accidental brush of hands that neither of them ever forgot that fleeting, magical summer…

But the harder Josie falls, the more danger she’s in of revealing her secret. Ian is the one person who can never, ever know what she did on that life-shattering day a decade ago. But if Josie runs away—forever this time—will she break her own heart all over again?