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Something Blue

By Jennifer (NRT), Emily/ Wiltsie, Emily Giffin

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| Audio CD | 9781593977450

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Book Description

Meet Darcy in Something Borrowed: Perfect life. Perfect guy. Perfect shoes. Perfect job. Meet Darcy in SOMETHING BLUE: No guy. Not enough money for shoes. No one will hire her. And a baby on the way. Life is about to get very interesting.
Darcy knows what is important in life: being the moContinue

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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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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 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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This was a super easy read, much like the first book. However, unlike the first book, I found it hard to sympathize with Darcy and the situation she found herself in, mostly because I was not fond of her in the first book.

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fuzziwuzzi said on Apr 14, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

When Darcy reached rock botton and bounced back up!

In Something blue the reader discovers that Darcy's best friend Rachel is not the holy Virgin one might have thought of…!!! Also, the reader starts to sympathize with Darcy because, finally out of luck, she starts to act ...
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Bitbpcom said on Apr 2, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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