Regretting You (Colleen Hoover)

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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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“Find something to fill all the the corners.”

I read this book two times. The first time, I wasn’t a fan. (That’s all I am going to say on that.) The second time, Colleen Hoover stole my heart. I am so glad that I read this story the second time around, I would have hated to see what I would have missed had I not.

So, two things first:

1. Colleen Hoover
2. Character driven stories

Two of my favorite things. Bam! And Regretting You had just that! Driving away from her normal POV structures, Colleen based this one around a mother / daughter POV. Something that we don’t see too often these days. It was unique and original and for this story– it worked.

Clara was a hard character to like. I think any one who reads this book can agree with that. But it just really goes to prove how well Colleen can write characters. Despite what they look like physically, she does an amazing job at creating characters that are REAL. Because honestly– how many 16 year old girls do us adults really like? LOL!

In true Coho fashion– her twists are magnificent. If you read the blurb on this story and don’t think there is a twist, you will be wrong. You will not see is coming. But what you will see if how it creates and shapes a story that will captivate you when it’s all said and done.

Exploring this mother / daughter relationship (twice) was such an adventure. I think the thing we can all agree on when it comes to Colleen, is she never writes the same story twice and she never writes the same characters twice. But what she does do over and over again, is steal our hearts with every story she creates.

And I don’t even think she means to, LOL!