By: Lyndsay Humphrey
Who gets more sympathy, the cheater or the cheated? In most cases, hands down, our sympathy vote goes to the poor girl who got cheated on. We offer up our advice and bash the ass hole stupid enough to screw things up with such a wonderful person. However, in Emily Griffin’s novel, Something Borrowed, we find our natural instinct to defend the victim simply vanishes.
Within the first two chapters readers are given a look into the complicated relationship between long-time best friends, Rachel and Darcy. The differences between the girls are evident from the get-go, and readers find themselves wondering how the girls are even acquaintances, let alone best friends. Rachel is a hard working attorney, who at the age of thirty finds herself alone and unhappy. While Darcy is in P.R. and is oblivious to anything outside of her own world, and her upcoming wedding, to the catch of the century, Dex.
On the surface it seems like a fun, gossipy novel filled with superficial drama and meaningless tiffs between best friends. Readers are in for a great shock when at the end of the first chapter we find out that Rachel, a woman who has never done a bad thing in her life, sleeps with her best friend’s fiancé.
The rest of the novel is about the rollercoaster ride that Rachel is on, deciding if she should tell Darcy or live the rest of her life in quilt. It only gets more complicated when Rachel and Dex develop actual feelings toward eachother and a one-night stand could turn out to be the end of one relationship and the start to another. Un unpredictable plot and the unusual pull to root for the bad guy keeps readers devotion to figuring out what the outcome will be!