About This Book
Regretting You is a dual-perspective story about a mother and teenage daughter who can barely stand each other — until a sudden tragedy strips away everything that kept their family stable. Morgan became a wife and mother before she became herself, and Clara is determined not to repeat that pattern. When the one person who held them together is gone, they're forced to grieve, rage, and slowly find each other — all while secrets surface that rewrite what they thought they knew about their family. The emotional stakes are real and uncomfortable in the best way: this isn't just a love story, it's a reckoning.
Hoover structures the novel to give both Morgan and Clara full, contradictory inner lives, which is harder to pull off than it sounds — neither woman becomes a supporting character in the other's story. The mother-daughter dynamic carries the book's emotional weight more than any romance does, and Hoover earns the tenderness she eventually asks readers to feel. The prose is direct and unshowy, with sharp dialogue that keeps even the heaviest scenes from feeling overwrought. It's the kind of book that moves faster than you expect and lingers longer than you plan.
