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A review by whodatro
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown
3.0
Who wrote the description for this book, "smart, comic page turner." There was nothing comical about this book at all.
A man who's company’s IPO has made him a millionaire overnight serves his wife of 29 years divorce papers via messenger. She's blindsided and in denial and then discovers that he has tricked her into signing away her rights to millions he's just made. This is just the beginning. She spirals into Meth addiction, after her pool boy tells her it's better than Vicadin and has the side of effect of weight loss.
Meanwhile her 14 year-old daughter has become popular after losing weight and mistakes attention for affection. She's had sex with 6 boys in her school. She learns that she's been deemed the school slut and that they are keeping a scorecard in the boys bathroom. She also becomes pregnant.
The other daughter, 29 and failed magazine creator, feminist and know-it-all, is kick out by her actor boyfriend, and is 100K in credit card debt. She is called home after learning about the divorce.
They all spend the summer existing together, but clueless about all of the secrets they are hiding. The mother miraculously kicks her meth addiction without treatment, the daughter has a miscarriage, rhe oldest daughter helps her mother by getting someone to publicly shame the father. We are told the husband wants to settle at the end. Mom and her two daughters heal, become the family they should, eat ice cream sundaes and life goes on.
It's a decent book, but the whole time I kept reading, I kept thinking these people can't be this naive and clueless about life.
A man who's company’s IPO has made him a millionaire overnight serves his wife of 29 years divorce papers via messenger. She's blindsided and in denial and then discovers that he has tricked her into signing away her rights to millions he's just made. This is just the beginning. She spirals into Meth addiction, after her pool boy tells her it's better than Vicadin and has the side of effect of weight loss.
Meanwhile her 14 year-old daughter has become popular after losing weight and mistakes attention for affection. She's had sex with 6 boys in her school. She learns that she's been deemed the school slut and that they are keeping a scorecard in the boys bathroom. She also becomes pregnant.
The other daughter, 29 and failed magazine creator, feminist and know-it-all, is kick out by her actor boyfriend, and is 100K in credit card debt. She is called home after learning about the divorce.
They all spend the summer existing together, but clueless about all of the secrets they are hiding. The mother miraculously kicks her meth addiction without treatment, the daughter has a miscarriage, rhe oldest daughter helps her mother by getting someone to publicly shame the father. We are told the husband wants to settle at the end. Mom and her two daughters heal, become the family they should, eat ice cream sundaes and life goes on.
It's a decent book, but the whole time I kept reading, I kept thinking these people can't be this naive and clueless about life.