Everything You Ever Wanted

Literary speculative fiction about Iris, a young millennial woman from London who struggles with depression and an unfulfilled life, ultimately deciding to join a colony in outer space. 
Ok this book was...interesting. 
This felt very bleak look at existential dread mental health and depression, like a mix of two other books I read with similar themes, The Red Arrow by William Brewer and Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter. Yet it felt also like a reminder to really appreciate what you have in life and that sometimes ordinary, seemily boring, things are to be cherished. I liked the themes and feel that could be an interesting book to discuss in a book club. 
Seeing other reviews, people seem to detest the ending. 
Personally I don't mind the abrupt ending nor the lack of explanation about the space colony so to speak. I guess I thought it would be more sci-fi ? Basically this feels like a focused study of a young depressed millennial woman that just happen to go live in space. Like the sci-fi setting didn't add anything, and that part plot felt a bit bare. So maybe my expectations were wrong which kind of biased my reading experience. Overall I preferred the parts taking place in London.  Still I liked the character, and I especially adored her familial love for her half sister. Their relationship and scenes were really touching. Her struggling with her distant mother was also an very emotional element to read.  The writing was pretty good and atmospheric enough to keep me engaged and turning the pages.  Overall a bit too bleak for my taste (I also would advise looking up reviews and trigger warnings before reading this) and lacking interesting element in the space colony parts but not a bad reading experience overall. 

I was surprised I liked this so much, considering it was a hard sell for me to read it to begin with. I really enjoyed the meditative character study that flipped into some harder sci-fi near the end and I thought this went some super interesting places in the last third!

Loved the concept. Didn't really go how I thought it would? Was so sad, but overall enjoyed

From the very first chapter, I knew I would enjoy reading this novel very much. I related to Iris a lot and her life was very interesting to read about. Especially near the back of the novel when things start going downhill. I just really loved it. 

The ending was left extremely open and the mystery of that ‘everyone doesn't know' is fully left unsolved, which bothers me in a way but it does make me able to fill in the ending the way I want to. What I chose to believe happens, which is also fun in a way. I just love reading books about people loving their minds.