So yay: the story should just finish at this point.Įllen: OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. It isn't even worth a full review and so I will try to summarize it in a few lines.Īndy: I'm practically the epitome of a good person, and the author paints me in a way that makes me seem perfect. She had all these life-changing moments squished into like three sentences. I just felt like the story didn't go anywhere until the end and then everything happened in like a two hour span and that was that. You don't have to agree with something to understand it and that's what was lacking for me in this novel. And I believe that she started cheating the moment she held hands with him on the plane - right up to the sneaky emails, texts, phone calls, and kiss scene at the end.Įven though in Something Borrowed, cheating is a main element to the story, she wrote it in such a way that you didn't hate Rachel or Dex for doing what she they were doing, instead you understood. Which was why I felt the cheating part was so disgusting because there was nothing there. I understand she was a mess when they broke up but shouldn't she have dealt with those feelings before she got married? Their interaction was minimal but when they were together, I didn't feel the intensity that she talked about so much. I found the story was lacking substance and that with a different spin, it could have been a much better, more believable story.Īnd what ex-boyfriend waltzes back in to his married ex-girlfriend's life 8 years later and thinks that he's good enough for her to leave her marriage even though they've had zero contact? I had a difficult time understanding or seeing the significance of Leo and Ellie's past relationship in order for it to have the obsession effect on her almost a decade later.

I wasn't rooting for anyone I wasn't happy at the end of the book, or sad that it was over like I was with Something Blue. I felt nothing with this book except anger towards the main character and sort of annoyed at certain scenarios that were so incredibly far fetched that it made me say 'Are you kidding me?' out loud. I really liked her other novels and found them to be quick, fun, beach-reads that still conjured up some feelings and life lessons.

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