I’m a big advocate of the opinion that books are always better than movies based off them. So, when a major movie like Something Borrowed is coming out, I definitely want to read the book before I see the movie, because doing it the other way around just never seems to work for me. After hearing rave reviews at Auburn about the book by Emily Griffin, I chose to hold off seeing the movie until I finished this book. However, in the end, I was very disappointed.
It is definitely a light, easy, summery read, but the overall message I got from it was simply justified infidelity as the protagonist cheats with her best friend’s fiance. She justifies it of course with the fact that her best friend is generally just a horrible person who has never treated her right and would do the same thing to her, and Griffin tries to overlook the moral dilemma to highlight the theme of self discovery and confidence in the meek and mousy protagonist. But personally I don’t care. You do not cheat, no matter what. And especially not with your best friend’s boyfriend. So as I’m finishing up this book, I’m disappointed. See the movie, don’t waste your time with the book.
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