Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Review by Reet K., Youth Reviewer
“Regretting You” by Colleen Hoover was another book that I read in one sitting. It felt like I wouldn’t be okay unless I knew what happened next. Here’s a little detail about the book: The first chapter introduces us to Morgan and her boyfriend, Chris. Morgan gets pregnant as a teen and seventeen years later, in the third chapter, we find that they got married and continued to be together. Them getting married seems like a very perfect plot so far, but of course, there are twists that make up this great book. Clara is Morgan’s daughter, whose perspective we also get to read from in the book. Clara and Morgan do not have a great mother-daughter relationship. Things only get worse between them and these things keep on increasing the distance between the mother and daughter, and it seems as if they will only be going away from each other.
Despite the problems in their relationship, everything seems to be in place until an accident involving two characters changes everyone’s lives, putting everyone out of place. After the accident, the readers join Morgan in putting the pieces together to understand something that would turn Morgan and Clara’s world upside down. What they had been seeing this entire time was not the truth at all about the people they loved. The other characters like Chris (Morgan’s husband), Jenny (Morgan’s sister), Jonah (Jenny’s fiance and Chris’s best friend), and Miller (Clara’s boyfriend) bring so much to the story overall. They all have very important roles.
I think this is a great book for others to read and I would definitely recommend it. It’s an emotional read that I enjoyed. The thing I absolutely loved about this book was how it got me interested right in the beginning. There are many times I can’t enjoy some books because of how slow the first half is and I just can’t seem to be ‘feeling’ the story or the characters. This book literally felt like it jumped to the good parts and skipped the unnecessary parts. There was not a single boring page in this book and I appreciated every part of it. Every time another piece was added to understanding what was going on, it was something shocking. This just made the book better and better as it continued.
Find “Regretting You” at the Kitchener Public Library!