By Colleen Hoover
Narrated by Tanya Eby and Lauren Ezzo
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
Format: Audio, Via Audible
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Started: 01/03/2024
Finished: 01/03/2024
Wow – starting 2024 off strong! I don’t typically write reviews of Audiobooks as I listen while I work and frequently don’t feel as though I gian enough of the important information to give a valid reivew (I listen to audiobooks at 1.6x speed so I can stay engaged while). Don’t get me wrong – I still get my work done and am phenomenal at my job, I just have ADHD so I’m able to multitask in this way (it just isn’t always the most comprehensive reading experience, haha). This, however, is not the case with Regretting You.
I’m giving Regretting You 4.5 Stars as it’s hard to give a 5 star rating. Reading (listening) to the story, it feels as though everyone’s timeline was a bit rushed, but that’s just my opinion. Time is a construct, books are magic, and I quite enjoyed this one.
PLEASE NOTE: Greif/Loss, Forbidden Love, Friends to Lovers, Betrayal/Infedelity
POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD:
As bad as this may sound, the car accident may have been the best thing to happen to any of them:
-Chris and Jenny get to spend their last moments happy together and don’t have to tell their significant others about the affair, lovechild, or anything.
-Yes, Chris is/was Clara’s father, but Morgan deserved a better husband/life partner. He’s too focused on himself, and don’t get me started on what he and Jenny did. I can’t believe Chris was a good father to leave his son to be raised by another man, even if that man was his best friend. Poor Elijah. Yet, after the accident Elijah gets a better father, one who will love and care for him no matter what, as well as a stepmother who will love him as if he were her own.
-Jonah and Morgan should have been together all along, regardless of Chris being Clara’s dad. Morgan and Jonah can finally let themselves be happy together – they should have been together from the start.
-Clara finally understands how valuable her relationship with Morgan is, that she idolized her father for the wrong reasons, and she’s able to be with Miller since he’s not actually the punk kid Chris believe (Morgan can confirm after spending time with him).
I quite enjoyed the reality of the mother-daughter relationship throughout this book, how the teen’s emotions and thought-process are so relatable. It reminds me some of my relationship with my mother, how close we are even through the struggles we had, granted ours weren’t as drastic and challenging as Morgan and Clara’s.
Morgan has a stellar inner monologue in Chapter 37 . The message is so important for every single person to hear, internalize, and implement:
“I’m still not quite sure what I want to be or what career I want to go into, but the last couple months of figuring it out have been exciting to me. Getting a job and going back to college is something I’ve always felt was too late. It’s not, though. I’m a work in progress. Maybe I always will be. I’m not sure I want to, The search for myself us becoming my favorite part if my new journey.
I recall what I wrote on my birthday board: Find your passion. Maybe I don’t have just one passion. Maybe I have several, and I’ve just never made myself and my wants a priority. The idea that I have the rest of my life to figure myself out is exciting. There are so many things I want to try, whether they work out or not. I think finding my passion is my passion.”
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover, p.334-335
Read Morgan’s words, read them again, and remember to give yourself the grace you give others. You are an incredible person and you deserve to follow your passions, find yourself, and take your time doing so.
I love the birthday board idea so much!! I plan to do this with my future children once I’m a mother.
I loathe the idea of extravagant promposals, but I love Miller’s promposal. I cannot even with how sweet this kid is, even if he’s a fictional character. If I were younger, he’d undoubtedly be an eligible Book Boyfriend.
Also, the fact that the base color of the books cover is in the orange-spectrum is absolutely glorious. If you know, you know.
Just an aside – I really dislike the narrator for Morgan – when listening, it feels almost like AI versus a real person reading. I wish the narrator for Clara had just done both.
Gosh, I enjoyed this book far more than I was anticipating. Thank you, Tink, for insisting I start reading Colleen Hoover. I appreciate you.
XOXO
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