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

5.0

I just wrapped up All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown - far and away one of my favorite women contemporary writers - and I have to say, she never fails to astound. This author has a way of surprising you, even when you think you know the way the story is going. Janice was an intriguing character, someone who on the outside seems superficial and shallow, while having a multitude of depth below the surface. She was at once selfish, pretentious and weak, and at the same time, confused, repressed and simmering. Margaret was also a fantastic character, with her shaky left-wing fanaticism and crushing debt. Brown perfectly captured the terror and the sinking feeling of falling deeper and deeper into that financial hole, a lonely hole where you pretend that everything is okay from the outside. While I didn't love the somewhat pedantic section about Planned Parenthood, every other part of this book was sheer perfection - and it's something I've come to expect from Janelle Brown at this point.