Summer Reading Challenge 2018: All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin (Chrissy’s review)

 

All We Ever Wanted
written by Emily Giffin
published by Ballantine Books, 2018

find it here: (affiliate links) Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iBooks, Target, Walmart, Kobo, Book Depository, Goodreads

Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book as part of the Summer Reading Challenge promotional event hosted by BookSparks.

Did I enjoy this book? I did enjoy this book. I read it in just over a day while I was at the beach. I can honestly say that it kept me reading from beginning to end. I didn’t want to put it down.

All We Ever Wanted tackles some current issues head-on and leaves the reader questioning what they would do and how they would react in these situations. I liked that it was told from the perspectives of Nina, Tom, and Lyla. The multiple POVs is a style that I am enjoying more and more. But I would have loved hearing the story from Kirk’s and Finch’s POV as well.

All We Ever Wanted is well written and definitely worth the read. It isn’t a light read like Ms. Giffin’s earlier books, like Something Borrowed or Something Blue, but it will keep you turning pages.

 

 

Would I recommend it? Yes, especially if you are an Emily Giffin fan.

 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: In the riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, three very different people must choose between their family and their values.

Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton. Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was.

Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long, and hard, but he finally starts to relax after Lyla earns a scholarship to Windsor Academy, Nashville’s most prestigious private school.

Amid so much wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn’t always fit in—and her overprotective father doesn’t help—but in most ways, she’s a typical teenage girl, happy and thriving.

Then, one photograph, snapped in a drunken moment at a party, changes everything. As the image spreads like wildfire, the Windsor community is instantly polarized, buzzing with controversy and assigning blame.

At the heart of the lies and scandal, Tom, Nina, and Lyla are forced together—all questioning their closest relationships, asking themselves who they really are, and searching for the courage to live a life of true meaning.

 

 

* This post contains affiliate links.

** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on August 10, 2018.