Review: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

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Summary:

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.

Review

I finally got to read a Colleen Hoover book and it was everything that I knew it would be. Not being able to put down her latest, Regretting You, if you are a fan of her books, you won’t be disappointed. Told through the perspectives of Morgan and Clara, mother and daughter, we experience their family journey of loss, love and forgiveness.

Morgan’s life began early. Like many mothers who have kids young, life happens really fast and those big goals and dreams get tucked away. Many find themselves living vicariously through the children but for someone like Clara, she sees her future going differently. She has big plans for her life that her mother sees differently and besides, she’s a teenager, so it’s inevitable that she would clash with her mom. Luckily, between her “cool” aunt Jenny and her dad Chris, they have a way of reaching her to make everything better.

After a tragic accident, they find themselves facing more questions than answers. With their life upside down and emotions taking the best of them, Clara finds comfort in the one person she is not allowed to be around and Morgan’s past comes down in revelations that change her life forever.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It took me forever to read one of them but glad I finally did. These characters really hit something hard with you. You really don’t want to let them go. There is such a special takeaway from this mother/daughter relationship. The up and down but most importantly how they found their way together through this situation really make you laugh and cry. So excited and looking forward to her next book. If you are a fan, than you will love this one. Add it to your tbr list.