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If you have plans to read one of the books, be prepared to read both, because you can’t help it.

Both of these books tell the same story: two best friends, gorgeous bitchy Darcy and smart plain Rachel, get in a fight because Rachel steals Darcy’s fiance. Something Borrowed is from Rachel’s perspective, Something Blue from Darcy’s.

Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed is the story of Rachel White and Darcy Rhone, best friends since childhood. Rachel is used to being the good girl, the hard-worker who exists in the shadow of flashy—often selfish—Darcy. Until her thirtieth birthday that is, when a drink too many results in Rachel sleeping with Darcy’s fiance, Dexter. The fling turns into an affair, and Rachel is forced to decide which is more important, friendship or true love.

Something Blue

Something Blue is the sequel to Something Borrowed, where it tells the story of Darcy Rhone, who thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy’s neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel White, the plain-Jane "good girl," steals her fiance, while Darcy finds herself completely alone for the first time in her life…with a baby on the way. Darcy tries to recover, fleeing to her childhood friend living in London and resorting to her tried-and-true methods for getting what she wants. But as she attempts to recreate her glamorous life on a new continent, Darcy finds that her rules no longer apply. It is only then that Darcy can begin her journey toward self-awareness, forgiveness, and motherhood.

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Among the two I loved Something Blue more, perhaps because in Something Borrowed I just couldn’t get (in real life) how Rachel and Dex could have kept it a secret for so long. Plus Dex is too perfect he hardly seems real – and how he managed to keep his feelings for Rachel for 7 yrs under control is beyond me. But this is what Griffin does best. She paints real life as not only black and white but with shades of grey. And that is life. People change, love happens. Life sucks sometimes.

Something Blue was different. She illustrates that people can really change and you can really find love in the most unexpected places. Ethan is someone I wouldn’t mind falling in love with myself.