Publication Date: December 10, 2019
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Rating: ★★★★★
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.
Review:
okay, okay, okay. let me just start by saying this is now in my top 3 Colleen Hoover books and my top 5 of all time.
Regretting You was just… I feel almost speechless about it. I started it and from those first few sentences (as always), I was intrigued on how this story was going to turn out. I read and read until I finished it. Within hours. Simply because Colleen Hoover has a way with her words unlike anything I’ve ever read before.
First, the characters in this novel were so interesting and amazing that I want to keep them in my pocket forever. Morgan and Clara? Phewwww, I wanted to jump into the book just to see what would happen in front of my face. Their angst was strong, but their love for each other was even better than anything I could’ve imagined.
The story behind this book is incredible. It had me curious from the jump and as the story went on, I fully did not expect what was happening. I was in a edge-of-my-seat feeling from the very beginning. The tears that I had, the laughs I had, I felt like I was sharing my own little journey with Morgan, Clara, Jonah and Elijah. It was a heartbreaking and heartwarming journey from start to finish all wrapped up into one. It makes you think of “what would I do in this situation?”
Finally, Colleen Hoover’s words and quotes did not disappoint in this book either. There were so many memorable things that were written that I wish I could highlight the entire book. There were a lot of instances that would be true to the reality around you and that’s a reason why she’s a favorite of mine. She always writes the truth.
“It means people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”
Colleen Hoover, you’ve made me a fan of yours from the very beginning and this book will go down as one of my favorites of all time!
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