REGRETTING YOU Book Review

Regretting You¹ by Colleen Hoover, eBook, 363 pages

Synopsis from GoodReads: 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.

BOOK REVIEW: I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. Based on this synopsis and the one for The House at the End of the World I hope it is clear as to why I don't read them. Are Morgan and Clara different personalities? Yes. Are they warring? No. Is Chris the peace keeper of the family? Yes. Do we really see their personalities clashing before Chris dies? No. It's only after Chris dies that their grief turns them on each other. Morgan discovers a dark secret that Chris was keeping that not only has her sad but also extremely angry and wanting to protect their daughter from ever finding out. Clara thought the world of her father and feels like her mother is just being callous and way more over protective. What the description fails to mention is that we start off with a 16 year old Morgan finding out that she is pregnant and then the story goes back and forth between Morgan and Clara. You get to watch both characters grow emotionally and watch the family dynamic shift!

5/5 Stars

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