Book Review: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
In my review for Regretting You, you’ll get to hear a little about why this novel wasn’t exactly my favorite for a lot of reasons…. I’ll talk about them more below, but let it suffice to say that this novel focused on family issues far more than the romance I was expecting, and I think that’s the main reason I didn’t like this book. I was caught very off-guard.
Book Information
Morgan has always been the mother who put herself last. She caters to her husband, takes care of her sister (Jenny), and does everything for her daughter (Clara). When Jenny needs a babysitter for her newborn son, Morgan is always there to step up. Even if the person who Jenny had the baby with is someone from Morgan’s past that she’d rather not think about. But when an unspeakable accident happens that leads to a revelation that Morgan never wanted to even contemplate, she finds herself lost. Lost without two of the most important people in her life. Clara can’t understand her mother’s actions after the tragedy and wants to be nothing like her mother. But as they grow and heal through their circumstances, Morgan and Clara learn a lot about each other and themselves.
Review | Heidi Dischler
So, y’all know me. I love a good Colleen Hoover book. Most of the books I’ve read by her, I loved (excluding Layla). Regretting You, though? Not my favorite, but also not my least favorite (see the previous parenthesis). I love the mother-daughter message that Hoover is writing about in this novel, but the romance for me was just not there. Jonah and Morgan never really had that spark. Even though that spark between them was mentioned multiple times, it just never felt real to me. Clara and Miller had more romanticism between them in my opinion.
There were a few things about the plot that made me a little dissatisfied as a reader that I’ll mention below in the spoilers, but everything flowed well together as it always does in a Colleen Hoover book. The characters just really left me aggravated sometimes (especially Clara) because of their actions. However, I think that just goes to show even more how amazing of a writer Colleen Hoover is because if her characters made me feel nothing at all it would be a different kind of review. I felt angry with her characters, hurt, betrayed, and all of the emotions that make a good book. This one just didn’t speak to me as much as the other books I’ve read by Hoover.
Spoilers ahead.
Okay, so, yeah. Don’t get me started on Jenny and Chris cheating. The whole entire time I kept thinking there’s just no way. How could someone do something like that? Colleen Hoover has got to be tricking us and making it look like they cheated only to find out at the end that Morgan and Jonah had it all wrong. Nope. You never get that from this book. Jenny and Chris equals horrible human beings.
That leads me to my next complaint. How in the hell did Morgan not read those letters??? The whole entire (and I mean the whole entire) novel I was waiting for Morgan to read them. I wanted some justification for what Jenny and Chris did. I wanted to know why. Morgan? Nope. She literally rips them up and throws them away. As a reader that left me extremely unsatisfied. One of the reasons this isn’t my favorite book from Hoover is because of this. I wanted more and this book left me feeling like I had nothing more than what I started with.
Other than that major pain in the butt, I liked Clara and Miller’s relationship the most. Even if Clara’s actions were absolutely agitating most of the time, her character and Miller’s had the most depth in my opinion.
Overall, this is not my favorite Colleen Hoover book, but I think it’s still worth a read! Family relationships come front and center for this novel, so don’t expect a huge romantic plotline. But the way that Morgan and Clara deal with tragedy is definitely the highlight of this novel!
Source: Audiobook from Audible
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