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Regretting You — Colleen Hoover

“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.”

Genre: Romance
Actual Rating: 5 stars
Content Warnings: Discusses racism and discrimination.

This is the first Colleen Hoover book I’ve reviewed on this blog, but this is not the first Colleen Hoover book I’ve read, far from it actually. Oh gosh, I don’t even know how to describe this book after finishing it. I am shattered, but let’s move on… “Regretting You” is written from two perspectives: Morgan’s and her 16-year-old daughter Clara’s points of view are explored after a big life-altering event (in the form of a car accident) changes their family dynamics forever. Filled with love, friendship, family, and heartache, this book will absolutely tear you apart and pull you back together in about 350 pages.

And even when I didn’t think Colleen Hoover could wreck me even more than she’s done in the past, she goes and does it again. I broke for Morgan. I cried for Clara. I hurt for Jonah. I fell for Miller. It was all too much.

I don’t even know how to recommend this book. Just read it. Please. Do yourself a favor and read it. This book is a romance, but it’s also so much more, it explores familial love and sickness and friendship and adoration. READ IT READ IT READ IT. Add it to your TBR. If you don’t trust me, trust its 4.23 stars rating on Goodreads (from more than 120,000 readers).

p.s. It’s settled now. I will never have a favorite Colleen Hoover book. My favorite Colleen Hoover book will always be the last Colleen Hoover book I’ve read.

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A Woman Is No Man — Etaf Rum

“To want what you can’t have in this life is the greatest pain of all.”

Genre: Cultural heritage fiction
Actual Rating: 5+ stars
Trigger Warnings: Death, domestic violence, r*pe

It took me a long time to finish this book, but only because it carried such a heavy message. It has absolutely no reflection on the masterpiece of a debut this book was.

“A Woman Is No Man” follows three generations of Palestinian women; all in different stages of their lives, all trying to do their best within their possibilities, all linked by the tragedy of being alive in a society that wants to silence them.

Every time the title of the book was mentioned within its chapters it just absolutely tore me apart. My heart broke for Deya, Isra, Fareeda, Sarah, and every woman that’s ever felt like they have no voice and no choice.

This book is an absolute must-read. I can’t recommend it enough. It’s so well written and it shares a story that isn’t showcased enough in mainstream writing. If you’re able to get a hold of this book, do it. I tried listening to an audiobook but it wasn’t the same. Reading the words to this book is absolutely necessary.

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