All You Ever Wanted

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We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I enjoyed reading about the family dynamics and the character’s backstories which explained how they reached this point in the story. To round off part one of the book, Emily discovers something really unnerving and unexpected… and before I could think about this further, part two of the book began, which alternated between Emily and Anna’s perspective – it had me super excited for what was to come! Are her thoughts out of control or is that annoying low-level niggle that something is very wrong in her life when everything appears to be right, a true indicator? I was hooked from the first few pages, a great easy holiday read, I loved the change of narrator it was unexpected and actually needed.

With her taut writing and immaculate pacing, Susan Elliot Wright has created a dark and sinister tale of toxic family relationships, full of secrets and lies, layered with a perfect example of the smothering isolation felt by so many new mothers. This was a good read, main character seems to have it all in life but someone is watching and they want what she has, who can she trust especially when she allready seems to suffer from paranoia. The author has done everything right here and it’ll be hard to forget such a gripping and intense journey. She misses the friends who largely deserted her since they discovered that Simon had been engaged to someone else when he and Emily first got together. As much as I liked Anna at the start and no matter how much I thought she was good company for Emily, she slowly began to get on my nerves and had me thinking twice.

instead a scene where emily confronts simon for being the most pointless character to emily and the readers would be appreciated. I was really really hoping for a twist that I hadn’t already guessed, but it never came so I was left feeling a little underwhelmed.

While there’s nothing to really make this books stand out from the crowd, it’s a good example of its type. As much as I was nervous about what was to come, it was an amazing feeling – the atmosphere had been perfectly written and I instantly had some terrifying predictions for what could happen to round this story off. The deeply emotional qualities of the previous four novels are successfully applied to the thriller genre which lifts this well above the rest.All You Ever Wanted is a thoughtful and multi-layered plot packed with dark touches and brimming with emotion. However, Anna may not be all that she appears to be and as the story progresses, the reader certainly becomes aware of darker motives on Anna's part. She has a challenging relationship with her adoptive mother and has felt increasingly isolated from her old friends since marrying her husband Simon. Stalker is a psychopath) it’s such an overdone trait that there wasn’t a single twist that caught me out! The characters were also thinly drawn, quote two dimensional and certainly not as complex, engaging and interesting as those in her other books.

I have not read any other books by her but I really enjoyed the way this was written, using different perspectives and shifts in chronology to show how the two women are connected. The back and forth between Emily and Anna really increased the tension as the ending got closer; just as Emily is coming to terms with things and being super accommodating to Anna, we read more about Anna behind the scenes, and I was starting to have a mini panic.

When Anna comes into her life she appears to be just what Emily needs - a friend and someone to support her with childcare. There was so much to explore in this book, the chapter endings always forcing me to read another chapter, and then another.

This was riveting, also the stalker element was very uncomfortable but I recommend the audio as it for me adds to the story. Both Emily and Anna are complicated women who elicit feelings of sympathy, frustration and anger from the reader. There are so many novels out there that try to pull off this type of story but they inevitably fall into stereotypical predictability and cliché. Each page helps us get to know this character so well, and even a couple of chapters in, I couldn’t stop reading!She has a bad relationship with her mother, has lost touch with her friends, feels overworked and gets little help from her husband whose time seems to be filled with afternoon and evening meetings. I have read everything by Susan Elliot Wright and loved all her books, especially The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood.