Review Detail

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.