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Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
4.0
It's always great to read a Colleen Hoover book. Specially knowing we are going to get some cool romance from it.
I enjoyed this story for sure.
I liked that we got to experience two storielines within the same story. We have Morgan who got pregnant really young and devoted her life to her daughter while being also always emotionally there for her husband and sister, and then she discovers they are both having an affair (which was kind of hinted as soon as there is a mention that Elijah looks like Clara, I immediately made the big story in my head), and that her sister's child is also her husband's child. Not to mention how Jonah, a person she used to know so well, that used to be a close friend that she had a big connection with, suddenly is back in her life to take care of a baby that isn't even his. When he left so long ago without even saying goodbye to her.
And then we have Clara, that loved her father, that idolized her aunt and she lost them both. She doesn't know what to make of the way her mother is acting. And she starts talking to Miller, this guy that used to avoid her for no reason.
We have two very different romantic relationships here, but a bit similar all the same. Both Jonah and Miller have liked these girl for a while and both have stepped away from there because the timing wasn't right.
Morgan and Jonah had a long time before they could finally be together, and althou I understand he took himself out of the picture because it hurt him and because he thought it would be better for everyone, he could have tried to work around it and stayed to support Morgan anyway. But I get it, I might have done the same thing he did if I were in that situation.
And I really like their connection, we didn't get to see something evolve precisely the way I would have wanted, but I feel like they needed each other a lot and they were so much more perfect together than in their other relationships, screw that 'opposites attract' nonsense.
About Miller, I think he was just a devoted cute human. He didn't cheat (thank God), and was such a good shoulder to lean on. And I really thought in the beggining that he would be a bad boy, but he wasn't (at all) and I really enjoyed that. Clara was the one who was having a terrible behavior with him sometimes, how she was close to making out with someone who was in a relationship, how she used him to get back at her mother. I understand she was hurting but still.
I like how things turned out in the end.
I feel like everything was a bit predictable and I would have liked to have known what was in those letters that Morgan never opened. Were they having an affair for years? Was it recent? Did they like each other as teens as well or not?
I guess we'll never know.
I liked the "short movies" Clara and Miller did and how he made a promposal to her that way, it was super cute.
And finally I wish the cover was more orange than it was, it would have made more sense right? Or was that coral and I don't know?
Now I have to figured out where to put this one in my Colleen books scale.
4 stars!
I enjoyed this story for sure.
Spoiler
This was an engaging story, like I feel all of Colleen's stories are. We have two points of view, one from Morgan (the mother) and Clara (the daughter). They have the typical mother daughter relationship. They get along but fight due to miscommunication and the fact that a tragic thing happened.I liked that we got to experience two storielines within the same story. We have Morgan who got pregnant really young and devoted her life to her daughter while being also always emotionally there for her husband and sister, and then she discovers they are both having an affair (which was kind of hinted as soon as there is a mention that Elijah looks like Clara, I immediately made the big story in my head), and that her sister's child is also her husband's child. Not to mention how Jonah, a person she used to know so well, that used to be a close friend that she had a big connection with, suddenly is back in her life to take care of a baby that isn't even his. When he left so long ago without even saying goodbye to her.
And then we have Clara, that loved her father, that idolized her aunt and she lost them both. She doesn't know what to make of the way her mother is acting. And she starts talking to Miller, this guy that used to avoid her for no reason.
We have two very different romantic relationships here, but a bit similar all the same. Both Jonah and Miller have liked these girl for a while and both have stepped away from there because the timing wasn't right.
Morgan and Jonah had a long time before they could finally be together, and althou I understand he took himself out of the picture because it hurt him and because he thought it would be better for everyone, he could have tried to work around it and stayed to support Morgan anyway. But I get it, I might have done the same thing he did if I were in that situation.
And I really like their connection, we didn't get to see something evolve precisely the way I would have wanted, but I feel like they needed each other a lot and they were so much more perfect together than in their other relationships, screw that 'opposites attract' nonsense.
About Miller, I think he was just a devoted cute human. He didn't cheat (thank God), and was such a good shoulder to lean on. And I really thought in the beggining that he would be a bad boy, but he wasn't (at all) and I really enjoyed that. Clara was the one who was having a terrible behavior with him sometimes, how she was close to making out with someone who was in a relationship, how she used him to get back at her mother. I understand she was hurting but still.
I like how things turned out in the end.
I feel like everything was a bit predictable and I would have liked to have known what was in those letters that Morgan never opened. Were they having an affair for years? Was it recent? Did they like each other as teens as well or not?
I guess we'll never know.
I liked the "short movies" Clara and Miller did and how he made a promposal to her that way, it was super cute.
And finally I wish the cover was more orange than it was, it would have made more sense right? Or was that coral and I don't know?
Now I have to figured out where to put this one in my Colleen books scale.
4 stars!