Saturday, December 14, 2019

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover


REGRETTING YOU

MONTLAKE ROMANCE

PUB DATE: 10th DECEMBER 2019

SYNOPSIS:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a poignant novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.

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.

THOUGHTS/ REVIEW

If Morgan Grant could turn back time, she would probably do it to correct some of the mistakes that happened in her past – like getting pregnant, marrying way too early and placing her career on hold to raise her daughter and take care of the family.

Her daughter Clara is now sixteen and her relationship with Morgan is fractured from her over protection. Clara’s confidants have been her father Chris and her aunt (Morgan’s sister). As the story progressed, you realize that what happens are that the betrayals, and the secrets that protect the people you love, may just hurt them more than simply telling them the truth.

How far do you protect your family in exchange for your own downfall?

How far would you sacrifice to your own demise and unhappiness?

This was my first Colleen Hoover novel, and I now understand why she has such a huge following of loyal readers. This book was so well told, and powerful that I read this in less than four hours. There simply is no putting this book down. You had to know what will happen next! Each of the characters played an important role in the story and you will be completely immersed in their role in the story.

It had been a long time since I cried over a book, and this one made me ugly cry and wrecked me to the core. I felt every emotion the characters were feeling from the painful regret and disappointment, to the hurt and betrayal for those left behind. I loved the development of the story and how it is about the sacrifices we go through for people that we love and care for, and that people are not always what they seem. Some people will disappoint you but many people will also surprise you and in the end.

I highly recommend this amazing book for an amazing family drama and a story of first loves, gut wrenching betrayal, devastating loss and disappointments, and in the midst of all this finding truth and love.

 AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: COLLEEN HOOVER
International and #1 New York Times bestselling author of romance, YA, thriller and Women's Fiction. And maybe a ghost story soon.

I don't like to be confined to one genre. If you put me in a box, I'll claw my way out.


My social media username is @colleenhoover pretty much everywhere except my email, which is colleenhooverbooks@gmail.com

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