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A review by fauxbot
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown
2.0
I picked up this book because I really enjoyed "I'll Be You". This one wasn't anything like that, which I had suspected based on the genre alone.
Overall the writing was fine, clear, well supported. But the story was a chick lit version of a summer comic book blockbuster. It's like Brown wanted to shove every hot button issue into a single book, and it just left me feeling strung out and underwhelmed by it all. If she could have skipped a lot of these things and really honed the story down, I think I'd have enjoyed it a lot more. Instead, I just kept wondering why it wasn't over yet.
Overall the writing was fine, clear, well supported. But the story was a chick lit version of a summer comic book blockbuster. It's like Brown wanted to shove every hot button issue into a single book, and it just left me feeling strung out and underwhelmed by it all. If she could have skipped a lot of these things and really honed the story down, I think I'd have enjoyed it a lot more. Instead, I just kept wondering why it wasn't over yet.