Then, after a night of drinking on Rachel's thirtieth birthday, she sleeps with Darcy's fiance, Dex.Īfter this turns into an affair, Rachel explores the meaning of friendship, true love, and ethics. She and Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood, and hard-working Rachel is often in the shadow of flashy, sometimes selfish Darcy. The novel centers around the protagonist and narrator, Rachel White, a thirty-year-old single woman who is a consummate good-girl living and working in Manhattan. Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel #1), Emily Giffin The book also contains a page suggesting questions for discussion, it seems the publishers expect the readers to ponder over this subject matter after reading the book.yeah, right!! I finally put the book down at a point where Rachel is talking about how she had begun to dislike her boyfriend in college because he was rooting for Duke's basketball team and not Indiana.Īnd the writing is really nothing worth mentioning.
And Rachel is trying to use this jealousy as a reason to justify sleeping with her best friend's fiancee. I don't see why the two are friends at all. Rachel has an inferiority complex and is jealous of her so-called best friend's charmed life.to them a good life being defined by the number of boyfriends they have had. Darcy is self-centered and insensitive and has been running all over Rachel forever. But their friendship doesn't seem credible at all. They have been best-friends since childhood. Darcy is a shallow self-serving bitch and Rachel lacks a backbone. old women can't think or talk about anything beyond dating and men.īoth the main characters are annoying. Darcy is part-Samantha, part-Carrie, she has good looks and has always managed to make the guy she liked fall for her and is now engaged to a guy she wants to marry. Rachel is part-Miranada - a not so good looking lawyer, and part-Charolette - miss goody two shoes who wants to find a husband and settle down. I am not going to read this tripe any further.įrom the first 50-ish pages that I did read, this books sounds somewhat like the show 'Sex and the City'.
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