We can excuse our dear Emily for that, right? Oh wait, hello Penn State and Joe Paterno, maybe I have.Īll right, so not a creative idea. Because it was, you know, oh-so-creative: A college football coach, a LEGEND (as the main character mentions in the book), REVERED in the small town in which he coaches is not the most morally upstanding human to ever grace the planet?!!? He turned a blind eye once upon a time to possible rape, not reporting the allegation to the university officials or law enforcement?!!? I've never heard a story such as this. Let's go over the basic premise first, though. But now, NOW we get a chick that sleeps with her best friend's dad!!! WOW!!! I don't care how perfect you think they are for each other. It's no secret that I am not in the camp of women that LOVE 'Something Borrowed.' Girls that sleep with their best friends fiances.no, thank you. And I read them SO fast because I have to know what happens to these awful, atrocious characters! It's this sort of question mark that keeps me buying her books.

Emily Giffin's work and I have a relationship in which I go in expecting absolute drivel and she either, a.) surprises the poop out of me and I enjoy the book (Hello, 'Something Blue,' 'Where We Belong' and 'Love the One You're With'), or b.) I curse myself for spending the money on exactly what I knew I'd be getting (everything else she's written). I'll be honest, I was prepared to hate this book.

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