Something Borrowed

I finally got to check out Something Borrowed from the library after being on the waiting list forever!  I refuse to see the movie until I have read the book even though I am sure that I will be disappointed by the movie since books are usually always better!  But I am going to watch it anyways.  I like Kate Hudson so I know it will be worth it.

Anyways if you remember I have already read Something Blue that is the sequel/sister book of Something Borrowed. 

Something Borrowed is told from Rachel's perspective. {Something Blue is from Darcy's}  She is a lawyer in New York, a self sacrificing friend who suddenly finds herself in love with her best friend's finance and to make matters worse he reciprocates those feelings!  Parts of the book had me shaking my head, other parts had me biting my nails in suspense.  In some ways I see alot of myself in Rachel, not the cheating with my best friend's soon to be husband part, but the part about her turning 30, always being the good girl and always doing the right thing.  Even though Darcy was Rachel's best friend she was always living in her shadow.  They are always competing with one another and Darcy always has to upstage Rachel so I found myself cheering for her when she finally stood up for herself in numerous instances but I was a little sad that it took having an affair to bring that out in her.  But I do think that Emily Giffin brought this very sensitive subject to a whole new light, makes you think that sometimes people really aren't who you thought they were.  I love how the two books together explore the unique relationship between two women who have known each other their entire lives and how growing up together can sometimes give people different notion of who each other are. You still see them as how they were when you were younger in middle school or high school and not for who they have become.

I will say though that I think I like Something Blue better and I am not 100% sure as to why that is. Maybe because Something Borrowed delves more into the infedelity than Something Blue does and Darcy really turns her life around in Something Blue. In the end I did enjoy this book as I have all of Emily Giffin's.