REVIEW ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Regretting You by Colleen Hoover for release Dec 10, 2019

Clara wants to be the complete opposite of her predictable mother, Morgan. When her father is involved in a tragic accident, the two must overcome the heartbreak together, despite the questionable circumstances of his death. To Morgan’s horror, Clara copes with the tragedy by finding solace in calm, cool and collected Miller, who seemingly has always avoided her.

Wow. I love Colleen Hoover’s books and man, this book lived up 🙌🏼. I wasn’t sure what to expect, given I heard it was centred around a mother-daughter relationship. I don’t usually love family sagas, but the romance still brought it’s A game in a less traditional sense from both a YA and an adult perspective.

Miller and Jonah were just top notch amazing. I don’t read a lot of YA romance but I loved the dynamic between Miller and Clara as well. Their little inside jokes were so real. And let’s be honest, Gramps was the real MVP 😂

The twists and turns of the first quarter had me SHOOK. I loved how Morgan and Clara’s experiences almost mirrored each other’s. The raw and honest way their grief was portrayed was so well done.

This book was beautiful guys! Highly recommend. Special thank you to amazon, netgallet and Coho for access to this ARC!

Let me just say first, the day Regretting You was approved on my Kindle from NetGalley, it was like an early birthday surprise just for me. In life there are very few moments and treasures to enjoy for yourself, and reading Colleen’s latest book is one of them for me. Colleen’s writing always captures my full attention. Her book is centered around a mother/daughter relationship, that just shows you in more ways why we love reading her words. Not only does Colleen create a relatable story to read, she also describes the pain expressed from Clara & Morgan that’s so unimaginable to process and believe. How they cope with such a tragedy and betrayal all in one. This alone will make you cry while reading and feel for the characters with so much emotion you want to believe it’s just not true and hope for some other explanation. My curiosity is strong with this book, I find myself asking “Why,” but don’t get the answers, which is okay because the storyline doesn’t need to be explained more. I understand Morgan’s reasoning for it, as heartbreaking as it is for her.
There is one special part of the book that will stay with me for a long time. It was with Jonah & Elijah having this amazing and touching moment of bonding together as Dad and Son, as it is witnessed by Morgan & Clara. There was so much love and understanding in these moments to enjoy reading about.
Colleen Hoover has a way with words that express so much more meaning to the reader and I truly enjoy reading her books for that. I Highly Recommend Regretting You and look forward to more books by this very amazing author.

“I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”
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I’m a big Colleen Hoover fan, so when I got this early reading copy from Netgalley I was ecstatic.
The story centers mainly in a mother/daughter relationship, Morgan and Clara, and the struggles they endure after losing Chris, Morgan’s husband, in a tragic and questionable accident.
I went to it completely blind, I had no idea even what genre I was reading, and since the first chapters I was immersed in the story and couldn’t put the book down.
I loved this book, it was an emotional and beautiful story with Colleen’s exceptional writting style.
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Regretting You releases December 10, 2019.
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“Right after something tragic happens, you feel like you’ve fallen of a cliff. But after the tragedy starts to sink in, you realize you didn’t fall off a cliff. You’re on an eternal roller coaster that just reached the bottom.”
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“I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside.”
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“Sometimes you have to walk away from the fight in order to win it.”
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Thank you NetGalley and Montlake Romance for giving me an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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Every single time I read one of Colleen's books I try to guess where the story will lead, and she surprises me every dam time! I felt so much Morgan and what she was going through emotionally and mentally. My heart also broke for Clara. I just recently lost my dad about a month ago, though it wasn't even close to the same sort of circumstance, I know the pain she was feeling. This was most definitely another homerun by CoHo. Now I'll be "patiently" waiting for another book of hers to devour!

5 ⭐️ I went into this book blind because Colleen is my favorite author and I knew that no matter what she wrote I was going to absolutely love it. And wow has she done it again! This was incredibly moving to the point where it had me in tears multiple times. There’s something about her writing that is just so honest and real. She managed to capture that jumbled up feeling of loss and the way it can shake up everything you thought you knew. I related so much to Clara that at times it got scary how much of myself I saw in her.

The mother and daughter relationship was so raw and real. I loved that it wasn’t sugarcoated or glossed over. It showed that despite how mad and angry you can get, there’s nothing that breaks that bond.

What was truly incredible was how Colleen was able to capture that “first love feeling.” The way someone can make you feel everything all at once. The way it’s scary how much it can consume you, but exciting how good it feels. I can’t stress enough how much I loved this book. This definitely inches up to the top of the list for me. I 100% don’t “regret” reading this.

I give this book 3.5 stars.

As a fan of Colleen Hoover, Regretting You was a book that I definitely looking forward to reading in 2019. I love how she has romance mixed in topics that everyone can relate to.

Regretting You is all about family secrets, love, and teenage rebellion.

Chris, Morgan, Jonah and Jenny all have love secrets. Clara, the minor, is just your average teenager trying to figure out how to be viewed as an adult.

I loved how different point of views were displayed in the book. It shows readers thinking is different from reality

The author captures readers' attention by giving enough when introducing the characters. Suspense is built when an affair among the adults is brought to the light. It would have been nice to learn more about the foundation of the affair. The suspense of the affair fades and it takes place of eagerness for Clara learning the truth.

Some areas of the plot is dragged on too much and random events take away from the plot.

It doesn’t matter what genre Colleen Hoover writes, each new novel just reaffirms my affinity for her writing. Regretting You captivated me from the first to the last word. I could not put it down (I mean who needs lunch when you start the new CoHo novel anyways?!?) and felt ALL the emotions! This young adult romance novel explores the depth of love, grief and betrayal while highlighting the complexities of the mother daughter relationship all with raw honesty. My favorite book of 2019 🥰

Thank you net galley and Montlake Romance for an Advanced Copy in exchange for an honest review.

Wow!! This is my third Colleen Hoover book and I am hooked!! CoHo has done it again...be prepared to laugh, cry and experience really everything in between. She could write the phone book and it would be un-put-down-able. This gem is about Mom, Morgan and daughter, Clare. They are living in the day-to-day safe, happy bubble of life when tragedy strikes. The roller coaster of secrets and betrayal rock their world and we get to watch helplessly as they navigate it. Morgan struggles to find her place in the world as a young mother who made choices for everyone but herself. Clare is young and sees the world through a teenager's eyes and wants to live her dreams. Teen friend Miller is a complete bright spot in the novel (although he is written with more wisdom than any 18 yr old boy I have ever met). He just makes you smile and taps into all those high school girl feels. Events in this book pack a powerful, unexpected punch and by the end of the book...you will be exhausted but satisfied. It's just one of those "I gotta know how this ends" books. A must read for 2019.

Colleen Hoover, I'd quite honestly read your grocery list at this point and know it would be a 5 star read. I swear to you, this is one versatile author - after shocking the world with Verity last December, us CoHorts have been waiting with baited breath to see what our beloved CoHo would come up with next - the answer is Regretting You - an angsty romance featuring both an adult and a teen relationship as well as the patented Hoover feel we all know and love - coupled with the mother of all shocks interspersed.

If you are a fan of Colleen's older romances, this one will definitely be up your alley. The subject matter is not quite as intense as It Ends With Us or All Your Perfects, there is less steam than Ugly Love, it is NOTHING like Verity - there's really no book to compare Regretting You to, but just to say it is absolutely wonderful in its own right and should definitely be a book to get your hands on the minute you are able to (12/10/19).

I loved this book. It may be my new favourite Colleen Hoover. I could not put it down, I was hooked from the first chapter. The pacing and flow was perfect. I am not going to repeat any of the synopsis, as I feel it does a disservice to the reader in what it reveals. Go in blind!

This book is far from a cookie cutter contemporary romance. It is about a relationship between a mother and daughter while navigating tragedy, grief, betrayal, secrets and lies. The POV alternated between mom Morgan and daughter Clara. These characters were captivating. The betrayal was jaw dropping.

Colleen Hoover can make a subject matter relatable no matter what. This book was as heartwarming as it was emotional. The blossoming love stories were a breathe of fresh air. I felt Hoover put us in the characters shoes seamlessly. 

Clara (16 years old) did not read as YA to me (despite her many terrible decisions). I enjoyed reading about her and Millers newly forming relationship. Morgan (35 years old) was my favourite perspective. I loved Jonah and Elijah so much. These characters were real, flawed, and believable.

I could see this book being turned into a movie so vividly. This book is captivating, and I am already suffering from a book hangover from this one.

This book is everything I love about Colleen Hoover books!!! Wonderful characters and a story you just can't put down!!! Morgan and Chris are married and have 16 year old daughter Clara. They were high school sweethearts. When Chris is tragically killed , Morgan and Clara have to pick up the pieces. This book is told in both Morgan and Clara's perspectives and I love that as you can see what each is going through. I truly loved this book even though it is quite the emotional roller coaster! I received an advanced readers copy and all opinions are my own.

This book will hit you in the feels. For those of you with teenage daughters, you should read this book and maybe have her read it too because there's so much depth to the dynamics of Morgan (mom) and Claire (daughter). The book is written in both their POVs which was exceptional.

Morgan became a young mother, she put everything on hold to be a stay-at-home mom to Claire and devoted wife to Chris, and as Claire had put it, predictable. She was the older sister to Jenny who just had a baby a few months ago with Jonah, Chris's best friend. He left 17-years-ago.

A tragedy involving Chris and Jenny open up wounds and secrets Morgan and Jonah weren't prepared for. Claire is rebelling like she never has before, enter Miller, the boy she always had crushed on.

This story was heartfelt and heartbreaking. The angst level was high. As a mother, I wanted to shake Claire, but understood what was happening to her emotionally.

Ms. Hoover has a way to make us all take pause and feel. I haven't read a CoHo book since Hopeless, not because I didn't want to, but I knew I would be gut punched. Bravo Ms. Hoover. Another great read.

*An ARC was provided by Net Galley for an honest review.

Colleen Hoover has done it again with a Regretting You! This story is full of tragedy and the worst betrayal you can imagine! I read this novel in one setting and loved the mother daughter POV! Colleen could seriously write the phone book and I would read it!! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC for my honest review!

“I didn’t regret that night, and i don’t regret it now. I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.”

Honestly i always start Colleen’s books knowing i will get blown away, and guess what? I’m always right…
She has the ability to

address topics that may seem like a meh, but when she gets to it, it goes deeper than you can ever imagine.

“Right after something tragic happens, you feel like you’ve fallen off a cliff. But after the tragedy starts to sink in, you realize you didn’t fall off a cliff. You’re on an eternal roller coaster that just reached the bottom. Now it’s gonna be up and down and upside down for a long, long time. Maybe even forever.”

The book is a dual pov, Morgan and her 17 YO daughter Clara.
So 2 completely different characters, different age and mentality, both written with extreme care, and everything was just right about them, it is truly magnificent.
The dynamic duet wa magnificent and it blew me away, that even when the characters may seem a lil bit similar, they both digested feelings and emotions way differently than eachothers, and switching between Morgan and Clara’s emotions was like going from 1st gear to fifth.



“Find something to fill all the the corners.”

The story talks about grief, ad as for me, even with the fact that i never lost anyone really close to me ( ALHAMDULELLLAHHH!), my heart broke, and was bleeding while reading parts of this emotional surgery.
What made it very realistic is that, there was no tiptoeing around a subject, no, you’d find yourself knees deep into it with no sugar quoting it.

My favorite POV was young Morgan’s pov, Morgan is the mother we had glimpsses of her younger self, and i never related to a character more than i did with hers

I should be happy right now, but something is off. I can’t put my finger on it.

But maybe because it wasn’t something personal to me, i don’t think this is my favorite book, top 3 books for me are still :

All your perfects
It ends with us
verity
I’m a work in progress. Maybe I always will be. I’m not sure I’ll ever feel like a final draft, and I’m not sure I want to. The search for myself is becoming my favorite part of my new journey.

Another amazing masterpiece by Colleen, And i can only hope to share this book with my daughter one day..

Actual rating: 3.5 rounded up to 4.
“Regretting You” by Colleen Hoover was at the top of my most anticipated releases of 2019 so of course I was super excited to get the chance to read it. One thing that I really loved about this book was that it was told in alternating POVs. It really focuses on mother-daughter relationships. Morgan is trying to find herself. She had her daughter at a young age and her desires and aspirations were offset because of this. Now that her daughter is growing older, she finds herself questioning her “why”. Clara is sixteen and an aspiring actress. She is dealing with overprotective parents as well as trying to follow her dreams, even though they don’t agree. When tragedy strikes, the lives of these two will forever be changed but will it be for the better or the worse?
I found myself really relating to Morgan. Clara was a little unlikeable, but I did have to remind myself that she was 16. ( Although, I also thought about how my own mother would have reacted if I had done half the things Clara did, lol.) The book had some huge twists. I thought the reveal was a little disappointing and certain parts dragged on a little too much. There was a perfect amount of romance. This story had many elements including heartbreak, grief, betrayal, and more. I look forward to reading more from Colleen Hoover in the future.
* Special thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.*

“ They’ve cut you deeper than they’ve cut me “

Morgan and Chris have been together since high school, they married when she became pregnant at 17!
Morgan has always taken care of everyone , she’s a mother, wife, big sister. The glue that holds everyone together
Then in the wake of an tragedy, truths come out and yet Morgan still puts everyone else’s feeling in front of her own.

This is Colleen Hoover at her best a book where you will live within the pages.
You will laugh and cry , find a new book-boyfriend, a new friend ( or 2), your heart will break and Unbreak all at the same time. I didn’t want this book to end !
A huge thank you to Netgalley and Montlake publishing for the opportunity to read this book!

So, what happens when you lose two of the most important people in your life due to an automobile accident? We've all read stories of both parents' who perish in an accident but what happens when the accident involves your spouse and your sibling? What happens when there are secrets, deep dark secrets that you uncover after their death? What happens when the two people you have loved, supported and trusted your whole life utterly deceive your trust how do you go on? How do you forgive and try to live your life so that you are being the best example to your teenage daughter without destroying her memory of the most beloved father and aunt? There are so many twists and turns in this book, besides all the emotions this story provokes it also will have you looking at your own morals, values, and feelings regarding loyalty, and honesty.

4,5 stars

I vow not to spoil anything in this review and …it will be difficult as the synopsis is fairly vague about major events but let’s do it!



First, I will begin by telling you that not all of Colleen Hoover’s books appeal to me as some had triggers and others are darker but I am happy to report Regretting You was just one of these favorite reads for me.

If I had to put a label on this book though I would be very puzzled as it’s not exactly YA nor mainly adult so maybe NA? There is romance yes but also some secrets. You also have heavy feelings and lots of tears. And if it wasn’t enough this story gives you many things to think about as far as mother/daughter relationship are concerned!

No label then!



In this story we will alternate between Morgan (the mom)’s point of view and her daughter’s (Clara). All are faced with a drama and will have to learn to go on with life, make the most of it all while struggling to communicate.

You will also have some romance and the male characters were really great guys but my only regret is that we did not have any chapter from their insight. Yet these men were so interesting that I would have loved seeing the story through their eyes.



What did I learn in this story? I am borrowing this idea from Lili @lilisblissfulpages as I think it’s perfect not to spoil anything!

I learned that you never know people close to you and that they can always betray you or hide some secret feelings;



I learned (but from my personal experience I already knew this) that relationships between a mom and her teenage of a daughter is a very hard exercise! Communication is difficult between Morgan and her daughter Clara.

When life is great this is intricate to communicate properly and navigate the slippery paths of teenage years but when something dramatic happens to shake your world to its core it becomes an impossible task!

Now THIS is a quote that I will use with my kids when they tell me I can’t give them advises as I made these mistakes while young: “It means people who make mistakes usually learn from them. That doesn’t make them hypocrites. It makes them experienced.”





I learned that when you are dutiful and selfless like Morgan it’s easy to get subjugated by your beloved ones and forget who you are in the process. After some years you will realize that you have lost yourself and don’t know the person you’ve become anymore.

“Little did I know, that routine would go on for a long time. Me being Chris’s devoted wife, taking care of his house and his daughter and his needs. Me being loyal to my little sister, helping her study her way through nursing school, cleaning up the messes she made of her twenties, giving her a place to stay every few years when she’d need help getting back on her feet. The day I found out I was pregnant, I stopped living life for myself. I think it’s time I figure out who I was meant to become before I started living my life for everyone else.”






I learned that when you hurt and feel betrayed you can think about any way to rebel against authority when you are a teenager. You just lash out because you are in pain. But when you are also a good person you will regret it pretty quickly because you are just not that bad girl. That’s what happened with Clara. She is a very mature and grounded girl but when everything is falling apart she needs something to numb the pain or make her forget. It did not help that her mom, Morgan, was determined to protect her daughter and did not explain some very important things.



I learned that even if the truth is painful and you want to protect your kids by staying silent this will cause more damage in the long term. Because we have to trust our kids and because they’ll always feel something is amiss.

When Clara suspected that Morgan hid something, she imagined the worse and lashed against her mom while all Morgan wanted to was to protect her daughter, even if she had to play the bad guy and be the one Clara despised.



I also learned that as long as you are not with your someone “special” you’ll have a content life but not the amazing life you could have experienced. Yet some people are ready to shoulder their responsibilities and make the most of it like Morgan while others won’t be able to stay honorable. I particularly love this quote as Colleen captured perfectly the working of relationship if you intend to stay with that person.

“Attraction is fun. So when you decide to commit to someone, you aren’t saying, ‘I promise I’ll never be attracted to anyone else.’ You’re saying, ‘I promise to commit to you, despite my potential future attraction to other people.’” I look at Clara. “Relationships are hard for that very reason. Your body and your heart don’t stop finding the beauty and the attraction in other people, simply because you’ve made a commitment to one person. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re drawn to someone else, it’s up to you to remove yourself from that situation before it becomes too hard to fight.””




This story and its character were wonderful and painful at the same time.

From the very first pages Colleen drew me in Morgan and Clara’s world. And honestly after the first chapter I feared that I would have a very frustrating book as Morgan made a sensible choice but one that I could already see was wrong for her or rather, asked a big sacrifice of her.

I was relieved to see it would not go as I expected and yet I felt ashamed for feeling happy as what launched the story in a totally different direction was an event that cut very deep into Morgan and Clara’s happiness.

This story is heavy with grief, with regrets, with unspoken truths and secrets. Yet this is also a very realistic story as this might happen (and probably happened in someone’s life) and that’s what made it so relatable.

The characters were complex, conflicted and battling their way through these hard times.

Both Morgan and her daughter had to learn something, to become different. They had to live their lives to the fullest, even with what happened.



And that’s another lesson here: when life is hard, YOU make the choice of making peace with it and go on stronger or you choose to resent life for throwing such a curveball at you and stay bitter, never going forward.



Would I recommend this story?

Absolutely if you are not afraid to deal with some sad topics and are looking for flawed but courageous characters living their life the best they could: imperfectly but selflessly.



Most relatable quote as a true bookworm (Clara is speaking here): “He’s right. When I’m here, I don’t have a clue what’s going on around me. Sometimes I sit here for two hours reading, and when I close the book, I’m surprised to look up and see that I’m not at home.”



Many thanks to Montlake Romance for this copy of Regretting You sent through Netgalley! This had no influence on my willing and always honest review.

5 Billion Epically Fantastic Stars!!! Colleen Hoover never ever disappoints!!! Nobody can write a book like Colleen Hoover!!! If you loved The Slammed Series like I do, Regretting You will give you all the Feel’s that Slammed did!!
I absolutely Loved all of the characters in this book (well everyone but Chris) especially Miller and Jonah. Omg don’t get me started on Gramps, I may even love him most!! He was hilarious!!! You’ll laugh, cry, and swoon the whole way through Regretting You!!! Love, love, loved it!!!

ARC Received From Montlake Romance & NetGalley for an honest review.

Colleen Hoover delivers again with this one. It's sad, sweet with a mystery element to it.
I’d recommend you go into the book blind. But I will say this book is a book about choices – the ones that are made and the ones that are made for us, that we have to live with.