I have to admit that I may have made a mistake in reading this book as I had never read Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. My understanding (now) is that Something Blue is a sequel involving many of the same characters but told through a different character’s view. I do plan to go back and read the first one now, but I just hadn’t been paying that much attention when I got it at the library.
This is the story of DarcyRhone, who is not a very likeable main character. She comes from a background of believing that things are about appearance and that being beautiful is one of the most important parts of her life. She works in PR, is very into shopping and partying and seems to judge everyone, even those she is closest to, on very shallow standards. At the beginning of this story she is cheating on her fiance with one of his groomsmen, becomes pregnant and goes to break off her engagement only to find that her fiance has been seeing her best friend.
Darcy tries hard to play the part of the victim and becomes very obsessed with Rachel and Dex’s new relationship even as she tries to make a go of things with her new boyfriend. Very quickly she realizes that her relationship with Marcus was about lust and not much more and she tries to figure out what to do now that she is pregnant and having relationship problems with just about everyone in her life.
Darcy ends up running to England to visit Ethan, a childhood friend. She stays with him for several weeks before he speaks very pointedly about the flaws he sees in her character and then she makes some effort to change. However even in her efforts to change for the better I never felt that she actually did anything to truly change. Darcy was able to make progress on some fronts but was very self-centered pretty much throughout the story.
This was a good fast read (beach book?) and like I said, I’ll probably go back to visit Something Borrowed.
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