This book sounded intriguing and I wanted to learn more about life in Vienna in the early 1900's and how the love stories of these characters would fit into that environment. The historical aspects of the novel were interesting, but I found it long and a bit tedious at times. I listened to the audiobook and maybe having a physical copy would've worked better for me.

I gave this one a shot a few times, both in print/ebook as well as audio. I got about 30% through before quitting. I'm sad I had to DNF, but not every book is for every reader. I did love that it's LGBTQIA and historical fiction, but I just couldn't get into the story. I hope it finds its audience, and I think it will. Unfortunately, that audience just isn't me.

I was really excited for this book, but the audio narrator and the denser content of this book made it hard to get into. I'm going to try picking up a print copy of the book instead!

In 1911, Julia leaves her husband for Eve, and the pair move to Vienna. The city is not without discrimination, but they find a chosen family there with like-minded friends. However, Julia’s longing for a child stops her from being truly happy. Ada Bauer’s family send her to Dr. Freud with the hope of curing her selective mutism. Soon, Ada’s path will cross with Julia and Eve’s in an unexpected way.

I felt like we watch this story unfold from a distance, never made to feel what the characters were feeling. As such, it made it hard for me to get into the story. There were two narrators for the audiobook, but I didn’t notice a difference between their voices while listening. Most books with multiple storylines weave them together in some way. This book really only had one point of connection, with a lot of wandering around throughout the book like it wasn’t quite sure where it wanted to go.

Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* This was certainly different, i did enjoy reading it a lot though. It's great to read more books like this!

I have a soft spot for queer historical fiction. It makes me feel like I understand both the LGBTQ+ community and world (or local) history so much more. Because of that, I overall enjoyed this book, even though it was a bit slow and confusing due to the many changing POVs (& timeskips). I especially connected to the characters experiences during the rise of facism, since it's a kind of fear that still haunts minorities all over the world. Beatrice Hitchman doesn't shy away from morally gray characters and actions, which i appreciate, though I'd love to see the topics more explored, not just represented. I have some doubts about the main cast's connection to Jewishness and how that plays into some antisemitic stereotypes with their more questionable decisions, but it is not my place to speak about. The book is certainly flawed, but also enjoyable and important in the sense of every story providing queer people with a kind of ancestor-like figures always is. I'm glad I've read it.

I want to thank the publisher for granting me a digital ARC and an audiobook ARC of this book.

A book with LGBTQ+ characters set in Gustav Klimt's Vienna? You know I was all in! I started reading it and fell in love with the characters and their struggles. However, more characters were introduced and story lines got muddled and even a bit lost and I ended up disappointed in the final product.

I still liked it. It was okay, but I didn't love it.

w: sexual assault, antisemitism, violence, abuse, csa, homophobia

This is an incredibly hard book for me to rate. I can't say I enjoyed it as much as I thought I would, but that being said, I don't think this is a bad book, at all. It has a very interesting premise, which is what originally drew me to it. The lives of queer people at the beginning of the 20th century in Vienna sounded right about something I'd love to read. And it really was interesting.

Now, I would say this is a complicated book, not in the way of writing, or even the plot, as much as in terms of characters, their lives, and their choices. It is both the best part of the book and also why I (later on) didn't enjoy it as much. The book follows several storylines, all of which overlap. We follow Julia and Eve, who come to Vienna to be together after Julia leaves her husband. Their new neighbor there is a gay man who they befriend, Rolf, an actor who starts a relationship with an engaged man Emil. And finally, we follow Emil's cousin Ada, who we follow as she goes to Freud to cure her mutism, as she unpacks trauma from the past.

What I did like about this book is just seeing various queer people existing in early 20th century Vienna. I always find it so comforting to know that there were queer people in history, so to speak, even if these particular ones are fiction. As I mentioned the first half of the book, I liked more, the introduction of the characters and establishing their relationships was done very well, and the way their struggles and thoughts were depicted was very real and raw. What works so well is that we have these three main storylines, Julia and Eve, Rolf and Emil, and Ada and Isabel, and they're all completely different and showcase different lives, people, and types of love - both good and perhaps, slightly toxic. I really enjoyed Julia and Eve's relationship a lot, I think it was interesting to read about (even if I think some issues were simply glossed over). I especially enjoyed Eve and Rolf as characters, and I only wish we got a bit more about them outside of the relationships they have with others. But all of the characters of the first half of the book are well-written and well-developed, and that really is the strong point of the book.

About halfway through the book, the plot shifts from the narrative it was following and has the characters going different ways for a while, and this is where my liking of the book declines. Not so much because the characters are no longer in one place, but because the way the plot develops after this I find to be dragging, and simply not as interesting as the first half was. The exact point where it goes downhill for me is when most of the characters conspire (and succeed) in doing something I find very questionable - but that is met with next to no consequence throughout the book. This does, however, make them leave Vienna for a while, so maybe that is the one consequence this has.
[spoiler] Namely, what they do is they steal a baby. Specifically, Emil and Isabel's child. Rolf, after being left by Emil, and Ada, after being rejected by Isabel, and not believed about the abuse she endured, concoct this plan. The plan is for the baby to be given to Julia and Eve, as Julia wants nothing more but to have a child. Ada, in the end, doesn't do her part as she ends up having a heart-to-heart with Isabel, and they have some slightly strange sexual encounter - which I don't understand and don't like. Julia is unaware of the plan, but when the baby shows up, she gets on board so as to not incriminate her friends, and they flee Vienna. [end of spoilers]
After this, we have a pretty big time jump in the story, we are introduced to more characters, [spoilers] Elsa, the stolen baby, now grown up, and the guy she's interested in, [end of spoilers] and if I'm being honest, I don't care about them very much - they just don't feel as interesting as the main characters of the first half. We lose Ada's POV completely, which is a shame, as she was a big character in the first half. There is only a slight glimpse of her in one of the later scenes, which tells us what she's up to at this point.

The characters ultimately do make their way back to each other, and to Vienna. This is now after World War 2 has ended, and after many harrowing things that they lived through, the characters are reunited. The ending is bittersweet, as is expected, but I didn't really feel that emotional about it, as the second half of the book really made me less interested in the overall story. The brief depictions of the beginning of WW2 and how it affected people, however, really did leave an impression on me, as they were harrowing.

All in all, this was a slightly confusing book. It had a great premise, and a great idea, but something in the execution (especially in the second half), was lacking to me. I listened to the audiobook, and I really enjoyed the narrators, so I would recommend the audio if you are interested in the book!

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review!

I ended up DNF-ing this one. What I read was well-written and researched, it just wasn't the book for me. The beginning started with one of my personal triggers. I do think that others will love it though!

Something out of my comfort zone: following sapphic and gay couples in Vienna during the first half of the 20th century.

I found the story to be lacking and slow, even in audiobook format. It took me a while to finish this, and I forget most of what happens by now, if I’m being honest. It hasn’t been that long since listening to it, but that tells me the story wasn’t captivating/isn’t my type of book to read.

Overall, I do think this is an important story to tell.

This book felt like such a surprise! I think the synopsis was misleading a bit in how things were going to go, but I enjoyed it like that even more. It's a story about flawed people that you somehow grow to love. It's about love, and a society that doesn't quite approve of it, and about long-lasting friendships. It's even about a stolen baby. It's about class differences, and war. It's about family.
It kept surprising me and changing, because every few chapters there was a jump in time and the plot just completely changed all over again and their problems were different and the world was different for them. With a 3rd person singular narration with all of their different point of views, I learnt to love everyone and go past their mistakes, knowing they all did what they did because of love, because of something they needed.
I'm very glad I read this, and the audiobook was really great.

This was an exceptional read.

All of you every single one, is a historical fiction set in Vienna in the 1900's. It gave me such Moulin Rogue vibes, but it was because of all the bohemian cafés, and gatherings.

The story has many complex and interesting characters, and the plot was so phenomenal, especially the way the author brought to life such an incredible place like Vienna. Our main characters are Julia and Eve, Julia being unhappy with how her life is turning out, runs away with Eve to start a new life. That was only the beginning for the young couple, they will have to navigate life and each other in order to survive.

Another aspect I truly liked was how the story had real life cameos like Dr. Freud, trying to help Ada, another character with speech impediments that will later play an important part in the story. If you are looking for a tasteful and emotional read, this book is definitely worth a read.

This is an all-around queer book. Certainly can be recommended to people who enjoy literary fiction in a historical setting. I did the audiobook and the narrator definitely helped keep me interested in the story especially that second half. I think I would have enjoyed more from the original sapphic relationship as some of the later plot lines were not as interesting to me. That being said I am very happy for a queer story to specifically focus on the bohemian timeframe. They were definitely there history has just censored it feels like!

Thanks to the publisher for access to the audiobook.

While I really enjoyed a lot of things about this book, there were a lot of other things that felt icky to me.

The first half of this book is fantastic, the deep dives into the characters, the ties they have to each other, their wants, their flaws, all fantastically played out.

The midpoint shift was really what dragged this book down and I've seen a lot of other reviews saying the same.

I really didn't like how this book handled its Jewish characters or characters who were Nazi sympathisers. This book was supposed to be ABOUT this time period but a lot of it felt like background detail and nowhere near as pressing as it should be for the majority of the book.

Honestly, this could have been WAY better but the second half kinda ruined the whole book

I received an audiobook copy of All of You Every Single One A Novel by Beatrice Hitchman, from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Overall, I found the book interesting and the characters to be very unique. However, there's so many different perspectives included in the book that at times it is difficult to differentiate between the characters and actually remember who everyone is. Additionally, at times it was difficult to understand what was going on and some of the plot points which led to characters being completely forgotten/ overlooked. Furthermore, at times the plot seemed to get a bit sluggish but it would pick up again quickly at least. The book offers a different look at Vienna prior to world war two and a little bit of what occurs after it from the characters perspectives. So I suggest looking up trigger warnings before starting it.
Overall, I did manage to enjoy the book and grew attached to a few of the characters, but the jumping around of perspectives did lead to a bit of confusion.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the audio ARC of this book.

A powerful story that takes place in Europe during some of the darkest years of the 20th century. The author skillfully recreates the time period and allows the reader a peak at queer life in the years before and during World Wars I and II. Told from varying perspectives this rich story comes alive. Some characters were given less page time than others and the richness of the story may have suffered a bit. Nevertheless, the storyline and storytelling make this a unique novel.

As a side note, the cover art did not match the book and threw me off each time I saw it.

This book was as passionate as the novel was sweeping. More poignant and relevant now than ever. #AllofYouEverySingleOne #NetGalley

Beatrice Hitchman chooses a fascinating time in history to explore this story. Set in Vienna in 1911, All of You Every Single One is a complex novel, and includes several different groups of people. It’s an interesting idea, and I enjoyed the way the tales weave together.

The audio version is beautifully narrated by Sophie Ward and Lara King. Kudos to these two performers, who keep this long and intricate story moving along.

This was my first LGBTQ+ historical fiction and I’m glad I listened to the story rather than reading it. The pace was mixed, with some fast and slow paced moments. I loved the representation and character growth and how everything came back full circle in the end. The narrators did a good job distinguishing the characters' personalities. I was not expecting to have as many POVs as were presented, especially them being in third person. With each new POV introduced it took me a while to figure out how they were connected with the others. Each character had their own struggles but it was the struggles that brought them together like family.

I don't normally read historical fiction but I was fascinated to learn more about the queer community during the Holocaust and I love literary fiction! This book did not disappoint - each of the characters were complex, imperfect, dynamic characters. There are several storylines that the novel follows, of which I was most compelled by the sapphic romance of Julie and Eve (because I was rooting for them) and the complicated dynamics between Rolf and Emil (neither of whom I liked...but that's kind of the point isn't it?) There wasn't a clear cut "good guy" or "bad guy" which I appreciated. However, more than the characters, the premise of the book was what drew me in. When I think of the Holocaust I've only read books focused on the persecution of the Jewish community, so it was interesting to read more about the queer community and gypsies. The details (like the haze over the sky for the Night of Broken Glass) were jarring.

I'm giving this book 5 stars because not only did I enjoy reading it, I know that it will stay with me for a while. It has already been a week since I finished it, and I cannot stop thinking about it.