ISBN13(s): 9780312321185 and
Average Rating(s): 3.80 and 3.91
My Rating (for both): 3 out of 5 sweatpants books. I'll explain in a moment.
Hello! I decided to combine these two books into a single post because 1. By the time I got around to writing a post for 'Something Borrowed' I had already finished 'Something Blue' 2. My emotions toward each book were very similar. I bought these two books at a used book sale for a dollar, and the covers caught my eye so I figured... why not? A little bit of chick-lit every once in a while never hurt anybody. In my opinion, many genres of books can be compared to a pair of pants. I say this because I had a bit of a hard week (long boring story) I say this because I realized that the feeling I get from chick lit books is roughly the same emotion I get putting on a pair of sweat pants. YA is skinny jeans, adult fiction is more like standard jeans, classics are formal, school uniform pants (I would know), etc. Anyway! Tangent over.
These books are about two best friends -or former best friends- Darcy and Rachel. In Something Borrowed, Rachel ends up hooking up with Darcy's fiance. Of course, in girl world this is the biggest mortal sin one could ever commit. So it is assumed Rachel is our antagonist. Right? Wrong. Our main character in Something Borrowed is Rachel, the 'good girl' who has always followed the rules. She's the underdog who has always been in Darcy's shadow. But for some reason, the gorgeous Dex happens to realize one day that he's in love with Rachel (after 7 years! of being with Darcy) This situation suffers a minor to moderate case of what I call, 'The Twilight Effect'.
The Twilight Effect comes from everyone's favorite vampire novel -I say favorite with my voice oozing sarcasm-. It basically means that a stunning, insanely gorgeous man falls for a plain girl who is described as having no interesting or mentionable attributes. I'm not saying that you need a reason for falling in love with someone but it just kind of bugs me that two characters are somewhat forced together "just because". I mean this in Rachel's case, but Dary was completley assenine and vapid. Ethan, her love interest even admitted that he didn't like her. However all of a sudden in Something Blue, Darcy makes a few minor changes and all of a sudden she's the patron saint of pregnant women. But she absolutley had to find love becuase all chick lit books have to end with a happy ending.
These books weren't exactly contenders in the nobel prize for literature. But of course that wasn't the intention, Emily Giffin's books are more playful and fun. So I can't really be too hard on these books. They were a good set of books to spend a quiet weekend with, like sleeping in and watching romantic comedies on netflix. Those movies are great. But not oscar winners. I consider this to be the same thing. Thanks for Reading!
-R
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