A review by erinmp
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown

3.0

Janice has been waiting for this day for most of her married life: the day that her husband's company goes public and the family are IPO millionaires. Finally they've made it. But what she doesn't expect this day is to receive a letter from her husband informing her that he's leaving her. For her best friend. And she won't receive any part of the windfall. Meanwhile, Janice's eldest daughter, Margaret, is struggling: her small feminist magazine has flopped. She's $100,000.00 in debt, and her movie star boyfriend has dumped her for a starlet. Janice's youngest daughter, Lizzie, is only fourteen, but she has more problems than she can deal with. When did she become the school slut? Told in alternating voices, the three women struggle alone and together through one of the toughest periods of their lives and have to face their pasts and actions head on.

I did like this. I wasn't sure that I would in the beginning, but somewhere around halfway through I found that I couldn't put it down and raced through the rest. I loved Margaret's character and the multiple references to feminist theorists and her struggle with her beliefs and the world around her.