Regretting You

Regretting You

By: Colleen Hoover

Genre: Romance

About the book:

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.

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"I think it's time I figure out who I was meant to become before I started living my life for everyone else."

This book was a slow start for me and I didn’t enjoy Morgan’s point of view as much as Clara’s.  

Morgan and Clara’s journey are so different even with experiencing the same loss.  The struggle between mother in daughter through such a hard time was written flawlessly something I have come to expect from Colleen Hoover.  Morgan tries too hard to shelter her daughter from pain and grief but the constant lying just causes that wedge build and for anger and resentment becomes the new normal that also makes communication pretty much non existent.  There were several times I was saying just tell her the truth.  

“I’ve taken ’em every damn day since your grandma skipped town. I’m not an invalid.” “Yet,” Miller quips. “And Grandma didn’t skip town. She died of a heart attack.” “Either way, she left me.”

The supporting characters Miller and Gramps were my favorite.  Gramps was sarcastic but also has a sweet side, their relationship gave me all the feels.  It was nice to see a loving relationship in the midst of all the chaos.

“You actually left me the rights to your air in the will?” -Miller

This was a great book and the ending makes reading all the wrenching plot twist worth it.  

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5