Regretting You
By Colleen Hoover
Published Year:
Page Count: 346 pages
Medium Used: Kindle PW
Genre : Romance, Teenage, Contemporary Fiction,2025-read.
Rating : 5/5
Wow. Hoover can write. She had my complete attention while reading this book. The prose is great. The pacing is fast. I tried to jot down some points I didn't like about this story but I couldn't come up with many. Unlike most romance novels, this one doesn't have too much smut or overt sexuality. I am secretly thankful for that. When I was reading Verity by Hoover, the too many sexual descriptions had me cringing and nauseated. They were a big turn off for me. But this story has not one but two romantic tracks going on.. and strangely its mother and daughter .. and there is no smut in it. I am amazed. I also liked the maturity which the mother attains alongside her daughter when both their trust and faith are at crossroads. I felt there is too much crying and raw emotional display but that's perhaps normal. She made the characters seem real too. Although, I felt the men came off as near to perfect and there can never exist a thing or person as such! I am very old fashioned and casual or non-committal relationships make me frown and disapprove. There is some of it in this, because its the way of western culture and that is reflected. And nothing wrong with that. Just that I feel squeamish when I reflect on it.
Clara is sixteen year old with a tight knit family. Her doting and selfless mother Morgan, father Chris got married when Morgan is seventeen years old and got pregnant with Clara. She skips school and becomes a full time parent to Clara. She has a sister Jenny who has been hanging out with her and Chris since they started going out. Jenny had a boyfriend Jonas who walked out on her when Morgan announces her marriage to Chris. No one knows the reason for his abrupt decision to switch schools and move out on Jenny. Seventeen years later, Jenny is set up with Jonas again as she becomes a mother to his son. Chris and Jenny die in a freak car crash and the world shrinks for Morgan, Clara and Jonas. The trio are left to pick up all the pieces of the puzzle about why they both were traveling together and why they have rented out a hotel room together. As the surprises keep mounting for them, it drives them apart, it pulls them together. It straightens them up as individuals and makes them make the right choices in their lives.
Loved this one!!
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