Book: Regretting You
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Contemporary
Rating: 5 stars
Synopsis (Goodreads)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a poignant novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.
Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.
With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.
While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.
My Review:
Regretting You was my first Colleen Hoover book. I’ve been reading a lot of good things about Colleen Hoover books and I’m glad I decided to go with my fellow bookstagrammers’ recommendation. This book was simply awesome. It had piqued my interest only after a couple chapters and I found myself unable to put it down. This book tells the story of love, betrayal, grief, and family relationships.
Regretting You revolves around the lives of a mother and her daughter: Morgan and Clara Grant. Where Morgan’s life has stopped from growing and grooming any further due to her early pregnancy and a certain accident later on, Clara finds herself unable from running wild due to her rebellious teenage nature. Morgan, so alone in her grief, wants to protect her daughter from getting consumed and spoiled by same misery. Rebellious teenage girl, Clara, after losing two most important people in her life, is unable to channelize her grief and starting to get carried away by anger and sorrow. At first, you might hate her for her behavior with her mother, but then anyone in her shoes might do the same or worse.
I loved Morgan and Jonah very much in this book. Where Morgan was a great mother, Jonah proved to be a loving dad to a kid who is not his own. Jonah always loved Morgan and I loved the way he found his way back to her even loving Clara as his own daughter.
Colleen Hoover’s writing style is so captivating that will keep you hooked and convinced. Also the plot of this book is fast-paced, engrossing and engaging. The ending was a bit predictable though, but it did not make it less entertaining. It was my first CoHo book, but I know, for sure, that it is not last. Well, I really loved this book and could not recommend enough!
My favorite Lines from the Book:
“It means people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”
“Sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it.”
“I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”
“Grown-ups might not have their shit figured out any more than we do. They just wear more-convincing masks. That disappoints me”
“I love music. It feeds my soul.”
“Heartbreak builds character.”
“Grief is a beast, but it’s also a great excuse.”
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