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.
Heart-breaking and uplifting all at the same time, Regretting You takes a mother-daughter relationship and puts you through all the feels in that way that only Colleen Hoover can.
At first glance, I thought I would click more with Morgan since we are about the same age. However, I really loved and connected with both Clara and Morgan’s story. They are both going through the same tragedy yet at the same time in such different places of life when it comes to dealing with the after effects. I also adored their counterparts so to say in Jonah and Miller. They both added so much to the story and sometimes you need that person to pull you out.
This is definitely one of Colleen Hoover’s more predictable story lines however, it did not make the story any less awe-inducing. Colleen always has this uncanny ability to make you feel for each character regardless if you have ever felt the same or not and I adore that about her books. Overall, another give me all the feels book from Hoover and I cannot wait to dive into more.
Jotted by Jena 