Something Borrowed, Enhanced Author: Emily Giffin | Language: English | ISBN:
B004P8J88S | Format: EPUB
Something Borrowed, Enhanced Description
The smash-hit debut novel for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.
Now A Major Motion Picture - In Theaters May 6th
Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy's fiance, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.
This Limited Edition E-Book with Behind-the-Scenes Movie Extras includes:
Video of The Cast and Crew on the Making of Something Borrowed
Video of Director Luke Greenfield and author Emily Giffin on their first conversation
Video of Author Emily Giffin on watching the film for the first time
Video of Director Luke Greenfield on how open Emily Giffin was to changing her book in the script
Video of Author Emily Giffin on casting
Photo Gallery with images from Something Borrowed
- File Size: 5 KB
- Print Length: 416 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1 edition (December 31, 2036)
- Sold by: Macmillan
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004P8J88S
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
*SPOILERS*
I knew that I was getting into a book about disloyalty and infidelity when I decided to read it. However, I found the author trying to pass off Dexter as a romantic hero with Rachel and her friends gushing at how courageous he was when he broke off his engagement with the best friend of the girl he's sleeping with as an obvious misnomer and a little manipulative on the author's behalf. Because really, their reaction should have been "Finally!"
I know that cheating happens, and their immorality was not the problem I had with the book. However, let's just call things as they are. It's one thing for Rachel to think of Dex as courageous, but her level-headed friends realistically would have said "Thank goodness he came to his senses" rather than being impressed. I hate it when authors throw little things like that in to get the reader to still like and side with the main characters. I thought this book was supposed to be about there being a gray area.
But to make matters worse, in case the reader had any remorse for Darcy - Rachel's best friend of 25 years and Dexter's fiance - the author made sure to rid the guilt completely by having Darcy admit that not only is she also having an affair, but with Mark, Dexter's friend from college and Darcy's two-time substitute for when she needed someone to take Dexter off her mind. But because Darcy & Mark's affair happened a month into Dexter and Rachel's relationship, when they were already exchanging I Love Yous, the author decides that maybe she allowed too much gray area for the audience to still feel sorry for Darcy...after all, Darcy's affair happened around the time she felt insecure because Dexter had been distant and not having sex with her anymore.
Something Borrowed is about a woman who on her 30th Birthday gets drunk, does the unthinkable and sleeps with her best friend's fiance'. Oops, you mean that doesn't happen all the time? As if that is not bad enough, she and the friend's fiance' decide they have feelings for each other (while sober) and start an affair behind the best friend's back.
Now, with that mentioned I must say I really disliked this book. I truly do not consider myself prudish in any way, but I strongly disagree with the reviewers who state you find yourself rooting for the deceptive couple. They are having an affair behind her best friend's back! It really doesn't matter if the best friend is an awful, selfish jerk. That is the great thing about friends, YOU CHOOSE THEM! If she is that bad why continue to be friends with her? The basis for this is the "heroine" in Something Borrowed is somewhat of a pushover and a supposed good person who can't be mean to her best friend and tell her where to go. But it's ok to sleep with her fiance'? I just don't get it.
Again, I don't think myself close mined or prudish but the author just did not create a sympathetic enough heroine for me to say it was alright for her to cheat with her best friend's fiance'. And if it is true love (which of course the author had to spin it as if they were completely in love with each other), CALL OFF THE WEDDING! Dex (Mr. Cheater - the hero) takes forever to make the decision to call off the wedding.
There were so many different ways this book could have been plotted to make a more agreeable and acceptable situation. Make the fiance' that of her worst enemy (which I guess Darcy would have fallen under the category of frenemy).
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