Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Book Review:

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Description:
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 review will have what might be considered spoilers*

Another CoHo five star rating from me...I can't even help myself at this point.

This contemporary romance has all to do with heart break, grief, and growth.

Colleen was right when she wrote that adults don't have it together like kids think they do. We are navigating through life trying to figure it out like they are.

With Regretting You, I enjoyed having 2 points of view to read through. Part of me wishes that we could have had more points of view because that would have made the storyline more complex as well as those characters would have had their side of things. The growth of Clara throughout the story was accurate for a teenager and it was great as the reader to be able to have her mom's point of view witness that too. There were times when I wish that Morgan would have told Clara the truth about her dad & aunt sooner than it happened, but when the truth did come out it was nice that Clara figured it out on her own. Morgan and Clara's relationship development was wonderful. Miller seemed epic himself and the way that his and Clara's relationship turned out was cute. It was kind of annoying that Clara let him take the blame for the drugs and her bad behavior when it wasn't Miller at all. As for the letters from Jenny to Chris, I understand why Morgan didn't open them but man am I nosey and wished she would have. Jonah is just a wonderful character all around. The back story with him and Morgan was 10/10 and I'm glad their relationship turned out how he always wished, given the horrible circumstance.

Overall, I definitely enjoyed Regretting You and would recommend it to others.