---
product_id: 13328717
title: "True Love Story Paperback – February 24, 2013"
brand: "willow aster"
price: "€ 34.55"
currency: EUR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 7
url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/13328717-true-love-story-paperback-february-24-2013
store_origin: GR
region: Greece
---

# True Love Story Paperback – February 24, 2013

**Brand:** willow aster
**Price:** € 34.55
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** True Love Story Paperback – February 24, 2013 by willow aster
- **How much does it cost?** € 34.55 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/13328717-true-love-story-paperback-february-24-2013)

## Best For

- willow aster enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted willow aster brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Description

Full description not available

## Images

![True Love Story Paperback – February 24, 2013 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61GV8Ss1SHL.jpg)
![True Love Story Paperback – February 24, 2013 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71NbjaUfJiL.jpg)
![True Love Story Paperback – February 24, 2013 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31ExC6cc3wL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Oh Ian Sterling... I want to kiss you & then slap you!
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013*

When we meet Sparrow she is an innocent, naïve preacher's daughter about to head off to college in NYC with her best friend. She dates an associate minister in her daddy's church and is excited to be starting her life away from her childhood home. Before she leaves, she attends a dinner party with her boyfriend at the home of friends of her parents. There she is introduced to Ian Sterling. He is her parent's friend's cousin and a handsome, sexy, up & coming musician that she has had a schoolgirl crush on forever. There is instant attraction on both parts and the evening is full of innuendo and heated banter. Sparrow leaves with a bigger crush and a guilty conscience over how Ian made her feel.After a very awkward separation from the BF and another confusing evening with Ian that ends with him acting quite cool toward her after a romantic afternoon together, Sparrow heads off to New York and her new life not knowing where her relationship/friendship stands with Ian. Over the next few months, he is very elusive and very sporatic with his contact. She doesn't know if they are a "thing" or not. She dates others but doesn't get her heart wrapped up in anyone else and has a few encounters with Ian here and there. She even suffers a very traumatic experience alone and without confiding in anyone. Ian lets her down time and again until she finally puts her foot down and forces him to start making an effort. All is going so well... until... well until Ian's true colors are revealed.Ok... Men... I swear I wanted to jump into this book and wrap my hands around Ian's throat more than once. I mean ugh. I understand that he thinks she is too young to be focused on just him and that he wants her to experience the full gamut of the "college experience" and I also understand that he has gone through a lot with his family and has never really seen what a functioning relationship looks like, but he does everything wrong. You just want to rip him apart. You really feel Sparrow's pain and you can put yourself in her shoes. Haven't we all been a young girl wondering "does he like me... does he not like me... did I imagine that he liked me... why hasn't he called... should I call him, probably not... are we friends or more?" Took me right back to high school! I love that she gets her act together and makes it clear what she wants and what she expects. She really grows up in this book and you see her mature. I HATED the traumatic thing she has to go through. I thought it was tastefully written and shined a light on a very common problem in college today... although I wish more action was taken because more action was justified in my opinion. I will admit that I had trouble with the connection between Sparrow and Ian in the beginning. It was so instant but I was "told" it was instant instead of being "shown"... I didn't quite feel it until later in the book. That being said you definitely feel it later. After the reveal of Ian's mistakes, I was just a puddle of emotion. I felt Sparrow's pain, I felt Ian's pain. The guilt, the anguish, the remorse, the longing, the numbness, the love... I. Felt. It. All. I highly recommend this book. I devoured it in one night.On a side note... This has to be one of my all time favorite book covers... just wow. I also, loved Ian's nickname for Sparrow "Little Bird" and I the relationship between Sparrow and her parents and best friend. They were all really great secondary characters.Favorite Quotes:"Little Bird, our love has been hard-earned from the very beginning. It is more precious to me than anything on earth. I can't just let go of it. And I won't stop fighting for it." ~ Ian""Aren't you worn out from running?" His lips follow a tear down my neck, and then he brushes my face with his hand. "I don't want to live without you another day. I'm begging you for another chance. Please.""You are in me. In the deepest part of me. Deeper than my memories, my unconscious thoughts. Deeper than my ever-changing emotions. You are in the place right next to where I keep my faith in God (a faith that I won't let go of now, in spite of it being shaken many times, from without and within). You're deep in me."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    I loved this book. And then I hated it. And then I loved it again...
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013*

I loved this book. And then I hated it. And then I loved it again. Every relationship has its ups and downs. And Sparrow (love her name!) and Ian’s relationship definitely had its highs and lows. This story took me on a very emotional and rocky journey that made me laugh, cry, scream with frustration, and very happy at the ending.“It has been a year, two months, and seventeen days since I last saw him. Two years, ten months, and five days since he had broken my heart-well, since I knew that he had broken my heart. Technically, he began breaking my heart the moment I met him, five years, eleven months, and one day ago.” - SparrowTrue Love Story begins with the prologue, present day. Sparrow and Ian run into each other at the airport, both on their way to the same destination. They haven’t seen each other in a long time after a very heartbreaking break up. When they realize they have seats side by side one another, could it be fate that brought them back together? As they are catching up on the plane, Sparrow, who was hurt deeply by Ian, reminds him exactly why they broke up.Rewind five years. Sparrow Fisher is in a relationship with Michael, the perfect future husband. He adores Sparrow. Her parents adore Michael. But Sparrow just doesn’t feel that way about Michael. She wants to be single and free to expand her horizons, so she moves away to college with her awesome best friend, Tessa.Before she leaves for college, she meets Ian Sterling, a very charming and sexy musician. The attraction between them is instant. The chemistry between them was so intense, it could almost be touched. When they speak, it's like everyone else around them instantly disappears. Unfortunately, they must go their separate ways. When they meet again, they end up spending a fun and exciting day together. That day, they both realize what they have together is special, but Ian is nine years older than Sparrow and travels a lot for his music. With only a sad goodbye spoken from Ian, he takes off on his Harley. And Sparrow has no idea if she will ever see him again. What she never expected is for her life to change forever after meeting Ian.Sparrow is now single, living in New York, and going to school. Sparrow and Ian run into each other several times over a period of time. They end up becoming good friends with lots of sexual tension vibrating between them. Sparrow wants to be with Ian, but he remains distant and evasive. This is confusing to Sparrow because she knows there is a mutual attraction between them. Ian is always telling her with sweet words how much he adores her. And eventually tells her he loves her. But the problem with Ian is, he’s always on tour and comes and goes as he pleases in Sparrows life – never attempts to make a commitment with her. And when he does come back into her life, after disappearing for months at a time, he thinks they will just go back to their usual ways together. This is starting to piss Sparrow off and she’s reached her limit with Ian. She finally tells him how she feels. They mutually agree to form a committed relationship, but Ian still wants to give Sparrow the freedom to see other people.Say What? I wanted to know why Ian doesn't want her to fully commit into the relationship, besides using the excuse that she needs to experience college life. If I was Sparrow, I would've been asking a whole lot of questions. But they never TALK about it. Sigh. All they had to do was talk. I felt completely and utterly frustrated with Sparrow’s passive behavior. She really needed to speak up.The attraction and chemistry between these two was beautiful and intense. They understood each other and loved one another unconditionally. What they have together is definitely special. And even though I was frustrated with Ian some of the time, I found him just as irresistible as Sparrow. He’s a delicious treat with his sexy physique, poetic words, and the man writes music and plays the guitar - nothing sexier than a sultry voice and a guitar. So, with that said, I understood why Sparrow would continue to see Ian even if he remained aloof at times.When Sparrow finally comes to her senses and demands some answers that she's been avoiding asking for a while now… Oh. My. God. I suspected the answer to this question, but I really didn’t expect to be reeling from the whole truth. Insert dagger in my heart. My intuition was right about Ian, but getting the whole truth was extremely painful. My stomach hurt. I wanted to curl up in a ball with Sparrow.“Little Bird, our love has been hard-earned from the very beginning. It is more precious to me than anything on earth. I can't just let go of it. And I won't stop fighting for it." - IanSigh. I really loved it when he called her Little Bird.It was really sad to see this couple fall apart. Part of me didn’t want Sparrow to walk away, but at the same time I understood why she did. She couldn’t trust him anymore. And because of what Ian did, he not only broke Sparrow’s heart, but she changed mentally. She went from a carefree, outgoing, 'life is good' kind of person to someone who is distrustful and a man hater. But I don’t think it was just the trust issues towards men that truly kept her from moving on. She loved Ian with all her heart and soul. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. And that kind of true love is hard to get over.I’m not trying to justify Ian’s actions, but I truly felt just how much he regretted his mistake. I almost melted into a puddle of mush reading just how sorry he was. Damn my mushy, romantic heart. But that doesn't mean I forgave him right away. Ian is still an arse for what he did.What I like about this story is that it took years for Sparrow to finally forgive him. When they meet again on the plane, it really was like fate bringing them back together again. This time around things are different between Ian and Sparrow. They've both changed and matured and found peace within themselves. I really adored this sweet but bitter love story. The writing sucked me in and didn’t let me go until I was well and truly an emotional wreck. I will definitely be looking forward to reading more from Willow Aster.-A review from Romantic Book Affairs

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved the love story between Ian and Sparrow but…
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2022*

There was just something missing for me.**spoilers.I connected with both characters and their love story together was believable and really well written. But what was missing for me was more detail of him cheating. We knew from the beginning that he broke her heart. The build up to it was fantastic, there were breadcrumbs here and there, and we knew as a reader that Sparrow wasn’t asking the right questions.The problem was when we did find out it fell a bit flat. There just wasn’t enough information on the how, why, when. I assume the author wanted to stick to main two characters and not make it about Laila, but it was that part that was missing for me. It was touched on later in the story but only paragraph or so. I know we’re meant to read between the lines, but the main reason for them breaking up was because he cheated on her but we barely got any information on it, and really it was skirted around. It just made it seem not entirely worth it. Did he ever show guilt? How many times were they together? When did he see her? It was understood he had commitment issues and there was a chapter of all the letters he wrote to Sparrow apologising. But seeing as the whole book led up to that moment of him cheating and their heartbreak it just never really made an appearance in the book.Maybe a chapter from Ian’s POV would’ve filled in the gap, I wanted to feel his hatred, the reasonings, the when, the why, his guilt, his thoughts about Sparrow when he was doing it. I think that would’ve made it a more well rounded story.

---

## Why Shop on Desertcart?

- 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016
- 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories
- 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price
- 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members)
- 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection
- ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews

**Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/13328717-true-love-story-paperback-february-24-2013](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/13328717-true-love-story-paperback-february-24-2013)

---

*Product available on Desertcart Greece*
*Store origin: GR*
*Last updated: 2026-02-20*