Something Borrowed

Reader reviewed by kathy

Something Borrowed was an okay book. I seriously thought it was going to better than it was. When i read the details i thought it was going to be this insanely good book. Unfortunately, it wasn't.
In this book, a teenage girl is in desperate need of a date for her sister's wedding. It also happens to be the social event of the year. She goes through many obstacles to end up going with her best friend's boyfriend.
In order to know what goes down, you have to read the book. As you start reading, it kind of gets better.

Reader reviewed by sarhahaha!

this book was so cute!!! its all about a girl who tries to get a date for a wedding and all of her dates bail out and the guy who she ends up going with out of desperation is the one!! its just so cute. and i thought it was so funny and witty. so if you like anything from simon pulse publishing then you should really take a look at this

Reader reviewed by carmen alexis

It is no wonder that I've had friends recommending this book to me for years now. It was a wonderful novel that has me asking all these questions, and realizing that having no concrete answer is okay. I am a little taken back mostly because I don't think that girls should ever betray their friends for a boy. But from this novel, you realize that the story is never that simple. You have to take in so many things into account. Like the fact that intentional harm... was never the reason for it in the first place. The characters of the people involved. The feelings involved. It is a tough situation to wrap your head around because the narration is through Rachel, and perhaps Darcy is not as bad as she's made out to be. But I do find myself rooting for Rachel, because Darcy is one drama queen that I can't stand.

Perhaps in all this, I haven't really made a standpoint for my opinions of this novel. I'm pretty confused about it myself at the moment. I can say this though... I'm glad I read it. I enjoyed every second of reading it. I am interested in continuing Darcy's story in Something Blue which is the sequel. I am putting my seal of recommendation on it. This novel is for all girls who deserve happiness even when they don't believe that it can happen for them. For all girls who know what it feels like to not believe anymore. I hope Rachel White inspires you to believe... but not necessarily to go after your best friend's boyfriend.

Reprinted here with author's permission.

Reader reviewed by Stephanie

At good girl Rachel Whites thirtieth birthday party, thrown by her longtime best friend Darcy Rhone, she gets a little too drunk and somehow ends up sleeping with Dex Thaler, Darcys fiancé. After one day of not having any regrets, Rachel feels incredibly guilty for what shes done to her best friend.

However, its not like Darcy doesnt deserve some of it. Rachel has always played the loyal companion to Darcys beautiful, popular, flirtatious, selfish self. Too many times since elementary school, Darcy has stepped over Rachel, made her feel inferior, made insensitive comments. Of course there have been moments when Darcy was loyal to Rachel in the face of mean classmates, but Rachel is slowly beginning to see that their friendship is far from being balanced and healthy.

Rachel feels caught between loyalty to Darcy and her growing love for Dex, who admits that shes the only girl for her. A part of her wants to retain her image as the passive good friend who always puts Darcys interests ahead of her own, but a part of her realizes that she deserves happiness. What she decides to do may make her the happiest shes ever been, but she may also lose something precious as well.

The first good thing I noticed about this novel from the very first page was that its written in a very accessible language, almost as if a close friend of yours is telling you her story. And it gets better from there. Emily Giffin writes with amazing skill and knowledge of humans and their relationships with themselves and others around them.

Reader reviewed by Alexandra

Rachel has spent the last thirty years being the good girl. Her best friend since childhood, Darcy, has always been wild and outgoing enough for both of them. But somehow, the night of her surprise thirtieth birthday party, Rachel winds up in bed with Dex, Darcy's fiancé. Horrified that her life of being the good girl has come to end in such a dramatic way, Rachel is determined to put the drunken night out of her head. Dex, however, is not so eager to let it go, and the two of them find that they have genuine feelings for each other. They don't want to lose the romance, but Rachel doesn't want to lose her friendship with Darcy either. They have a summer to figure things out, before Dex is forced to walk down the aisle. Rachel and Dex both have to re-evaluate all their relationships, and in the process they realize all sorts of things they never noticed before, not the least of which that the area between good and bad is quite gray, and that by being a "good" person for thirty years, you can still not get ahead as much as someone who spent the same thirty years being ruthless and egocentric. No matter how you consider yourself, "good" or "bad," you'll find yourself falling in love with both Rachel and Dex, and rooting for them to make it together.