Book Review: Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publish Date: April 1st, 2005
ISBN: 9780312321192
Pages: Paperback, 322
Series: Darcy & Rachel, #1
Source: Bought 

Goodreads Synopsis:
Meet Rachel White, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl--until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend Darcy throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiance'. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to discover that she has genuine feelings for the one guy she should run from. In her wildest dreams (or worst nightmare?) this is the last thing on earth Rachel could ever have imagined happening. As the September wedding date nears, Rachel knows she has to make a choice. In doing so, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat and sometimes you have to risk all to win true happiness. 'Something Borrowed' is a phenomenal debut novel that will have you laughing, crying, and calling your best friend.

My Review:
I love this book, and keep coming back to read it again and again. Everything about it screams perfection and excellence. 
Giffin is such a creative writer and the humor and the dialogue is so spot on that you'll read Something Borrowed in no time at all and be begging for more. You want more? Well lucky for you, there is Something Blue, book # 2, and if you're up for it you can re-live Something Borrowed in the form of a movie! And trust me, while the movie is, well you know, an adaptation of the book, it's still totally worth the watch.
Something Borrowed is best read on a beach during summer or on vacation. Or curled up under a blanket on a cold winters evening. While the book focuses on the terrible acts of infidelity, you'll laugh, cry and picks sides. It's an easy book to fly through and you'll be glad you did. Rachel, Darcy, Dex and Ethan are characters that you can easily relate to some way or another and you'll find yourself picking them out in your own group of friends. 
I can't say enough good things about Something Borrowed, and after reading this for the first time ages ago, Emily Giffin has become one of my favourite authors. Her chick-lit is a blast to read!

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Breaking The Spine, to show readers what we are anxiously waiting for!

Where We Belong by Emily Giffin 

will be released July 24th, 2012 by St. Martin's Press

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her.
For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

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I've read each and every one of Giffin's books. They're just great chic-lit and the perfect summer read and this one will be no exception!