Review: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

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

This book has been one of my most anticipated reads of the month. When I first started reading it did take me sometime to get into the story. Then the book reached a turning point and I couldn’t stop reading because I had to see how everything would unfold. One thing I predicted happened but there was another revelation that didn’t even occur to me at all. It’s bad enough this person was lying but to involve another person in their lie and make them up route their life based on this lie wasn’t right at all.

This book focuses heavily on the complexity of mother/daughter relationships. My heart went out to both Morgan and Clara in this book because they were so alike and in my opinion that’s why they bumped heads. I understood Morgan’s fears but that doesn’t mean Clara will make the same mistakes. Clara had a lot going on in this book and at times I wanted to shake her and then give her a big hug as well. I felt like if Morgan and Clara actually took the time to listen to each other things would have been better between the two.

“Sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it.’’

This. I’ve been there and truer words have never been spoken.

I must say Colleen Hoover is one heck of a writer. This topic is one that has been written before and can get stale after a while but Hoover has a unique way of writing that kept me interested until the very end. I have read several books by Hoover and even though this book isn’t a top favorite of mine it still made me stop and think which is always a good thing.