“Regretting You
Better yet, ask yourself how you can define love and forgiveness when they have been rolled us one. “Regretting You
I disagree with the second classification, but then again, there are six people in the story (in alphabetical order) Adam, Chris, Clara, Jenny, Jonah and Morgan. They all paired up, so it is about romance. But, is it?
You will love all of them; you might even hate some of them. A few will tug at your heartstrings. There are so many what ifs in the story.
What if Clara was never born? What if Jonah did not come back? What if Adam did not move the sign? What if the accident did not happen and Chris lived? Will all six of them find each other and finally “meet themselves?”
Because, that is the big question in this story, which fortunately, author Colleen Hoover answered in the end. The book might have been told via the points of view of Morgan and Clara, but they are not just the protagonists. All six of them – Adam, Chris, Clara, Jenny, Jonah and Morgan- are.
Elijah, Peter, Lexie and Efren might be secondary characters, but their presence is felt. Lexie and Efren are comic relief while Elijah and Peter underline the main characters’ capacity to love.
“Regretting You
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Summary
“Regretting You” is not a romance. It’s, as author Colleen Hoover said, “label-less.” Because truly, how can you put a label a mother and daughter finding and “meeting” each other for the first time. Or, how one’s true love has been waiting there, just waiting for you to notice.
Book Title: Regretting You
Author: Colleen Hoover
Release Date: December 10, 2019
Publisher: Montlake
Summary
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.
