“This is Hoover at her very best.” —Publishers Weekly
Regretting You, an all-new poignant and moving novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, is available now!
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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Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of thirteen novels and multiple novellas. She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. She is the founder of The Bookworm Box, a non-profit book subscription service and bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas.
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An up, close & personal look at the train wreck of relationships after a horrific accident leaves 6 lives mangled in a burnt & charred heap. The more the characters try to untangle it, the more tighter the knots get till you cant make out which thread pulls which life. No matter how they cut it, ALL of them get jabbed and pierced and bleed just the same.
"It’s like we’re living in a nightmare—one where we don’t want to eat or drink or speak. A nightmare where all we want to do is scream, but nothing comes out of our hollow throats."
It's a very complex scenario that Colleen sets in the first chapter itself. A teenage dilemma, a life changing situation and 2 couples' lives get divergent. Colleen being a seasoned writer doesn't waste time and space going into unnecessary details about the how's, the why's and the how long's, which forms the crux of the raging war which just sweeps into Chris, Morgan, Jenny & Jonah's lives.
This being the background, the primary theme of the story is the battle being fought between Morgan and Clara, her daughter. As always the innocent bystanders(Clara) catches the shrapnel of the exploded bomb in the aftermath.
Too young to comprehend her role in it, struggling to find her footing and burdened with a misplaced guilt, I can safely say, Colleen has created the most realistic and perfect character with Clara. I could picture her as a hurricane survivor, trying to pick up any leftovers of her home standing in the debris, trying to salvage whatever she could, which isn't much at all.
"Not only am I questioning them, and now Miller, but I’m questioning the whole stupid idea of monogamy and the validity of love and thinking how losing my virginity really isn’t all that special. Because if love isn’t real, then sex is just sex, no matter if it’s your first time or your fiftieth time or your last time."
She captures the teen heartache, drama and turbulence right down to tiny details with such perfection, it's hard to remember Colleen is a mother of teens and not a young girl herself.
There's two simultaneous love stories which cross paths at times and that's where the verbal accidents happen. War of words, tantrums & screaming matches stretch the already thin Mother/Daughter relationship to a breaking point. Add to that the rekindling of dormant feelings between Morgan and her teenage crush and you have a melting pot of emotions threatening to explode and burn everyone with its lava.
Frustrated Tears and heartbreaking angst saturate the story. Secrets and Betrayals leave you bereft. After the horrific accident, the clueless survivors don't get closure. They have to wander in the mausoleum of treachery and betrayal, looking at dead memories everyday trying to find answers. Their anger tears away at the scabs keeping the wound fresh. Trashing souvenirs, slamming doors, tearing letters and abandoning babies, It's all part of the grieving process which needs to bottom out soon...
"Okay. Okay. This is rock bottom. This is definitely rock bottom."
I need new words cause my older ones are inadequate to describe why I felt that this book was speaking to me. This is the exact same unfortunate turn of events that took place in my immediate family. Luckily no one died but that complicated the problems to a whole new level, so in that sense Colleen has been merciful to the readers and cleverly dodged the stake too.
That shows her experience as a writer and sensitivity towards her readers.
Colleen is a master of prose proven a million times million, so for me to praise that would be like showing candle to the sun. What stands out is her acute knowledge of human emotions and behavior. To make a YA/NA story relatable to every age bracket is a Hallmark achievement and her reason for being the indisputable Queen of YA Romance
The intricate web she weaves and then shows the way to unravel it, is ingenious and applause worthy
I'd suggest every woman should read this story, It's all about endurance and human perseverance in the face of calamities that hit you without warning.
6 stars & Thank God for Miller Smith, owner of AIR
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