Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin Audiobook

Written by Emily Giffin
Read by Jennifer Wiltsie
Format: MP3

Darcy & Rachel Series, Book 1
Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan.

An unexpected love affair threatens a long-lived friendship. Since elementary school, Rachel and Darcy have been best friends, with Darcy always outshining Rachel. While single Rachel is an attorney trapped at a suffocating New York law firm, Darcy is the complete opposite, a stereotypical outgoing publicist, planning a wedding with the handsome Dex.

Rachel has always been a good girl—until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend Darcy throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy’s fiancé. Rachel is horrified to discover that she has genuine feelings for Dex. Instead of feeling guilty about sleeping with her best friend’s fiancé, Rachel realizes that Dex is the only man she’s really loved, and that she’s always resented manipulative Darcy. Rachel and Dex spend a few weekends in the city together “working” while Darcy’s off with friends at a Hamptons.

She prays for fate to intervene, but when she makes a choice she discovers that the lines between right and wrong are blurry, endings aren’t always neat, and you have to risk all to win true happiness.

One reviewer didn’t care much for Rachel who would be a more appealing heroine if she were less whiny about her job and her romantic prospects, and rambling dialogue slows the story’s pace.

Jennifer Wiltsie’s warm, emotionally expressive voice immediately draws listeners into Giffin’s story and makes them sympathize with Rachel, whose growing attraction to her best friend’s fiancé eventually develops into a guilt-ridden affair. Wiltsie handles the other characters deftly; Rachel’s best friend, Darcy, is especially vivid (and hilariously shallow and self-centered), and Rachel and Dex’s romance is portrayed with exceptional sensitivity.