Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed is a chick lit novel by Emily Giffin. It does tell the story of Rachel and Darcy, her best friend. Darcy arranges a party for Rachel’s thirtieth birthday. Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy’s fiancé, Dex, after too many drinks. This book was placed on the New York Times Best Seller List and become a movie.

But what I got from this novel was that’s all right to sleep with your best friend’s fiancé if she’s a bit**, seriously??? The writer tries to make a character of Rachel to be a good girl and Darcy to be a selfish person as an excuse so it would not be wrong for Rachel to do these things. Rachel even thought, when she woke up in the morning with Dex, that she didn’t feel guilty about betraying her best friend, the only guilt she could muster was guilt over not feeling guilty      (ohhhhhhh, what kind of friend are you?????)

I don’t know why this book was in the list of New York Times or American like this kind of character but I think every character is so unlikable that it make hard for me to like this book.