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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
3 1/2 stars actually for being better than Something Borrowed
I great follow up to Something Borrowed. I wish there were more.
This is a must read after Something Borrowed. Both books are a really easy read that held my interest.
Probably would not have read it had it not been the last book on my Kindle in a foreign country where I couldn't download more, but I actually sort of enjoyed this. It goes quickly and it's not going to make you think deeply, but it's ok. Darcy's rapid transformation is not very believable, but she sure ends up a heck of lot more likable at the end than at the beginning.
In this follow-up to Something Borrowed, Darcy Rhone becomes the main character. Reeling from two break-ups and newly pregnant, Darcy decides to move to London to live with a childhood friend. Even though Darcy begins a journey to become a better person, her character is still highly annoying and extremely hard to have sympathy for. If you can get past Darcy's selfish, childish outbursts, this was an okay chick lit read.
This book is ultimately pointless. Darcy has still not grown in any measurable way. While no one (even a selfish train wreck like Darcy) deserves to be betrayed by the two people she trusts most, it is still really difficult to think of her as a sympathetic character. She never looks inward to understand her part in any of the events that befall her; rather, she goes hunting for the next male crutch to pick up the pieces and tell her she's pretty and her butt is still perky despite the fact that she's heavy with twins. I was also pretty appalled that she manages to land Ethan in the end even though I knew it was coming from the minute she browbeat him into allowing her to stay with him in London. From then on, it was a pretty painful ride to the end, hoping that she finally does become even the slightest bit likable. Alas, the hope is in vain.
I'll preface my complaints by saying this was a fun, enjoyable read.
I don't think I would have made it through if I hadn't started with the audio, because the reader made Darcy seem more sympathetic than she felt in my own reading.
BUT.
I could not get past how quickly Darcy changed from being selfish to selfless. She was not a likeable character, and it did not seem possible that she could drastically alter her personality within a matter of weeks. I loved Ethan in Something Borrowed and could not see him falling for Darcy. The love story did not work for me. At all.
I don't think I would have made it through if I hadn't started with the audio, because the reader made Darcy seem more sympathetic than she felt in my own reading.
BUT.
I could not get past how quickly Darcy changed from being selfish to selfless. She was not a likeable character, and it did not seem possible that she could drastically alter her personality within a matter of weeks. I loved Ethan in Something Borrowed and could not see him falling for Darcy. The love story did not work for me. At all.
a fun follow-up to something borrowed. predictable, but nice...
I was disinclined to like this book simply because of how much I disliked Darcy in the first book (and even more at the beginning of this one), but Emily Giffin somehow manages to pull off a very interesting and moving book!