Author: Clara Hayhurst

What happens when Hollywood is struggling with coming up with new ideas? When profit is prioritised over deep and meaningful stories? Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You is the newest YA adaptation to hit cinemas. It advertises itself as an emotional rollercoaster of love and loss. One that takes place in the backdrop of a small urban town; a mother and daughter navigating through their respective relationship problems as they come to terms with hard truths. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. And I have some thoughts. Regretting You represents all the worst sides of ‘BookTok’; from the romanticisation of emotional abuse…