One of my favorite scenes was the night of Darcy’s bachelorette party. When I first read Something Borrowed, I was 29, which was essentially the same age as Rachel and Darcy so I found myself relating to them and laughing alongside of them throughout the entire book.
Giffin makes a subtle but strong case that there are “no moral absolutes.” As easy as it is to say cheating is wrong, Ms. To make matters worse (as if it could), Rachel is not only Darcy’s best friend she is her maid of honor.Īs the story follows Rachel, Darcy, and Dex, that’s Darcy’s fiancé, and their friends through the summer, the lines of right and wrong get blurred. While Rachel resigns herself to thinking it was a one-time, drunken mistake, the fling soon becomes a full blown affair. However, on the eve of her 30th birthday, Rachel finds herself in bed with Darcy’s fiancé. Rachel is the perpetual good girl, who’s worked hard for everything she has in life, and Darcy, well, she’s that girl you know and sometimes scratch your head in wonder about how everything in her life has always fallen into place. Giffin did a stellar job of turning the tables and made the reader sympathetic to the cheater or at the very least open to her situation.
Unlike other novels with an affair at its core, Ms. However, back in the spring of 2011, the movie version was set to be released and I had heard a lot of positive feedback from friends so I decided to take the plunge and read it. The whole premise of the book, the main character sleeps with her best friend’s fiancé, isn’t exactly the storyline I usually go for. Book Review – Something Borrowed by Emily Giffinĭespite a lot of positive reviews, I was slightly hesitant to read Emily Giffin’s first novel, Something Borrowed.
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