The last ten chapters not only show readers that people can change no matter what their age is, but that family and love trump everything.

Giffin also shows the audience the transformation a child can cause, and it proves that family and love supersede other people’s envy every time. The reader gets to meet her babies, watch her leave her fairy tale relationship to pursue the man she has fallen in love with, someone she never would have gone for as the “old Darcy.” It’s like watching Darcy see the light bulb go off in her head and transform to the beautiful women she is outside and now inside. However, if one makes it through the hatred of Darcy and gets to those last ten chapters, it is almost worth the first three quarters of the novel.

In all but the last ten chapters Giffin makes Darcy so repulsive that readers actually do not want to keep reading. The story line that Giffin picks is a good one, and the novel teaches a lot about self- discovery and life in general however, Giffin makes one crucial mistake in the entire novel. Once in London, readers follow Darcy on her journey of self discovery, love, friendship, and motherhood, ending of course, with a happy ending. Darcy, now with no boyfriend, no friends, and a baby inside her, decides to flee the United States in search of a magic fairy tale in London where her remaining friend Ethan lives. Competitive Darcy then ruins her own relationship with her obsession over her ex-best friend and ex-fiancé, driving Marcus to flee the relationship. “Something Blue” follows Darcy who is now pregnant and living with Marcus, the man she cheated on her ex-fiancé with.

“Something Blue” picks up where “Something Borrowed” ends. In “Something Borrowed,” the readers follow Rachel’s journey of love and Giffin teaches you all about flawed friendships and following your heart. “Something Blue” by Emily Giffin is one of those books.Ī sequel to the truly amazing “Something Borrowed,” a book about two best friends, one that the readers are made to love, Rachel, and one that is a self-centered, egotistical, mean character that the readers are supposed to dislike, Darcy. Every once in a while a person starts a book that makes them just want to throw it across the room instead of finishing it.

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