Welcome to another book review. In today’s agenda, we’re talking about Regretting You by Colleen Hoover. I read this book as part of the magical readathon, know more here. Let’s get right to it, shall we?!
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Genres: Contemporary, romance, fiction
Blurb:
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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This is quite a complex story, I felt like it accurately depicted how one’s life can turn upside down really fast and the journey to healing after that.
I knew that it’s going to include some hard unfortunate situation, but I actually found that they were presented and handled better than I thought. Sure, there are times where the characters do things that are way out of character and some that are considered “bad”, but I think that’s how life works. I feel like this is something that I would recommend to everyone, read the trigger warnings beforehand though!
In Regretting You, we follow the story of Morgan and Clara; a mother and daughter that want to be nothing like each other. Morgan, the mother, wants to prevents her daughter from making the same mistakes she did in the past; getting pregnant at seventeen, marrying and basically putting her dreams on hold for the benefits of her family. Clara, the daughter, thinks her mother is predictable/boring and overbearing, she just wants to live without the constant pressure. Chris, Clara’s father and Morgan’s husband, is the one who seems to be holding them together. So what do you think will happen when he gets in an unfortunate situation that makes mother and daughter forced to interact and live with each other? What happens when some shocking truths arise that makes it hard for Morgan to cope, which Clara has no idea about–but she’s wrongly quick to blame her mother for?
As I said before, this is a really emotional read that explores the harsh parts of life we sometimes find ourselves in. There’s a lot of misunderstanding and miscommunication going around here, which I actually think is pretty accurate and common in these kinds of situations. Morgan and Clara choose to each mourn their separate ways instead of with each other, which just enlarges the distance between them more and more.
Have you read Regretting You?! If yes, what are your thoughts/opinions?
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