
Sure, Darcy had had her feet kicked out from underneath her, but she’s a fighter and fully capable of coming out on top again. It was difficult to believe that one relatively low-key confrontation would have this effect. Then, all of a sudden, after one unpleasant conversation, she decides to do a complete life makeover. Giffin’s writing is engaging enough to pull the reader along, but Darcy’s hedonism does get hard to take. She gets to drink while pregnant, spend her entire savings on a new flash wardrobe, use her friends, and complain about her problems. For fully two-thirds of the book Darcy gets to act out. While redemption stories rely on the protagonist having flaws, Giffin spends far more page time establishing the fact that Darcy is a lousy person than she does redeeming her. Ultimately, the reader’s enjoyment of this novel depends on whether she buys Darcy’s repentance and personal rehabilitation. At her first pre-natal visit what most disturbs her is her inability to judge whether her new female obstetrician is hotter than she is. She’s also a fashionista snob who judges others by their footwear.

She lacks any sort of emotional depth and thinks of people entirely in terms of what they can do for her. She blames everyone but herself when her engagement to Dex goes sour. She’s beautiful and glamorous, charming and occasionally insightful, but she’s also entirely superficial, self-centered, melodramatic, and childish. But life throws Darcy a couple more curves, and she must reassess her goals and herself.Īs a protagonist Darcy is interesting to read about but a real piece of work. She’s determined to remake her life into the Continental version of what she almost made for herself in Manhattan. Unable to face the scorn and shock of her friends and family, Darcy decides to take a sabbatical in London with her childhood friend Ethan. Because while Rachel was sneaking off to be with Dex, Darcy was making time with one of the groomsmen, and now she’s pregnant and Marcus, the father, is a slacker who has no interest in taking over Dex’s former role as head of Darcy’s fan club. Though everyone is sympathetic at first, things quickly fall apart.


Dumped for the first time in her life, Darcy finds herself on the begging side of a relationship, and it’s not a fun place to be. That is, until her best friend Rachel steals her fiancé, Dex. She’s got the looks – the Breck-girl hair, the taut and tanned body, the perfect features – she’s got the charisma, and she’s got The Life. This is the Bad Girl’s story, the one in which she gets her much deserved comeuppance…or does she?ĭarcy Rhone is the high school golden girl who never lost the gilt. If you enjoyed Emily Giffin’s 2004 debut novel, Something Borrowed about two girlfriends who betray each other’s friendships, you will be curious to see what happens in Giffin’s follow-up novel, Something Blue.
