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Something Blue

By Emily Giffin

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| Hardcover | 9780312323851

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Book Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a ‘perfect life’ can lose it all—and then find everything.

Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more chaContinue

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Something Blue

Something Blue If you enjoyed Emily Giffin’s 2004 debut novel, Something Borrowed about two girlfriends who betray each other’s friendships, you will be curious to see what happens in Giffin’s follow-up novel, Something Blue. This is the Bad Girl’s s ... (read full critics)

likesbooks published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

Bookreporter.com - SOMETHING BLUE by Emily Giffin

Emily Giffin's first novel, SOMETHING BORROWED, focused on Rachel, a sweet but average-looking single lawyer who, on her thirtieth birthday, finds herself falling in love with Dex, the fiancé of her best friend, Darcy. As Rachel and Dex carried on th ... (read full critics)

bookreporter published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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Nice way to keep my English fresh..!

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Anita said on Mar 2, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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So after reading “Something Borrowed” (and LOVING it in spite of myself), I figured, well now I have to read “Something Blue”. The freakishly obnoxious b*tch from the first book is obviously going to get what’s coming to her in the sequel and frankly, the devil in me is just in the mood to read abo ... (continue)

So after reading “Something Borrowed” (and LOVING it in spite of myself), I figured, well now I have to read “Something Blue”. The freakishly obnoxious b*tch from the first book is obviously going to get what’s coming to her in the sequel and frankly, the devil in me is just in the mood to read about it. Unfortunately this is not how “Blue” plays out. To be fair, any book that is published with the chick lit logo is going to have an impossibly perfect, Bridget Jones becomes the princes bride ending so I should’ve managed my expectations accordingly. But Giffin does such a perfect job of creating the quintessential character everyone loves to hate (Darcy) in the first book, that my cup of loathing runneth over upon starting the second book and no matter how much Darcy grew up, I still wanted her to end up deformed and talking with a keyboard a la Stephen Hawking. But like I said, this is chick lit so obviously this does not happen. Rather, in “Something Blue” we get the rest of the story from Darcy’s perspective, which ends up being one of the more irritating and whiney narratives I have ever read. For 200+ pages the reader is treated to a diatribe of “poor me poor me, I’m Malibu Barbie” only to be followed up with 100+ pages of incredulous poppycock that quite honestly had my eyes rolling into my head so often I’ve memorized the pattern of veins in my lids.
Ugh…honestly.

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ReadingQueen 12/17 said on Dec 15, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Loved it!

while in Something borrowed I disliked Darcy in this book you end really liking her and forgiving her all she did in the previous book! Brilliant!
Characters: Darcy Rhone, Ethan Ainsley

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Mati said on Jan 27, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Darcy's not a traditional Heroine for any book. She's selfish and self-centered and confident. However, I actually like her more than Rachel. I like her because I am not like her. I hope to be more selfish and confident. Hahaha. The story is nice, but I'm quite surprise of her development with ... (continue)

Darcy's not a traditional Heroine for any book. She's selfish and self-centered and confident. However, I actually like her more than Rachel. I like her because I am not like her. I hope to be more selfish and confident. Hahaha. The story is nice, but I'm quite surprise of her development with Ethan. It's quite unexpected.

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Aimeebox said on Dec 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

If you've read Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin you will remember Darcy Rhone. Never have I wanted to shake or slap a main character so much! Up until about the 300th page of this book Darcy drove me completely nuts, but despite that, I still wanted to continue reading, just to see if she could re ... (continue)

If you've read Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin you will remember Darcy Rhone. Never have I wanted to shake or slap a main character so much! Up until about the 300th page of this book Darcy drove me completely nuts, but despite that, I still wanted to continue reading, just to see if she could redeem herself. Thankfully, Emily Giffin did a wonderful job at making an unsympathetic character likable. I would highly reccommend Something Borrowed and Something Blue to anyone that enjoys Marian Keyes' style of writing.

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Bobbi said on Jun 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

darcy is self-centered, but this is so real. i am sort of like her.
wonderful job.

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be with said on Jun 9, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback