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- Content warnings: Cheating, Infidelity, Betrayal, Manipulation, Toxic relationships, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse
Something Borrowed
by Emily Giffin
Book 1 in Darcy & Rachel
Giffin makes you root for the woman sleeping with her best friend's fiance and builds a genuinely persuasive case. The moral complexity never lets up.
goodreads 3.89/5 612,838 ratings
storykind_community 2.5/5 2 ratings
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Length336 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Emotional / loving
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Emotional / loving
- The angst delivered
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- Reluctant hero
- Mutual pining
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Expanded empathy
- Secretly soft
- Childhood friends
- Slow burn with late spice
- Cathartic release
- Class difference
- Tension
- Perspective shift
- Only one who understands them
- Anticipation
- Betrayal to trust
- Longing glances
Fantasy promise
- Contemporary romance
- Love triangle
- Big city / metropolis
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Workplace / office
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- Secret relationship
- Friends to lovers
- Second chance
- Right person wrong time
- Misunderstanding
Reading experience
- First person
- Emotional
- Conversational
- Heavy
- Career woman
- Dramatic
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- Introspective
- Wallflower
- Soft/gentle
- Tense
- Warm
- Melancholic
- Engaging
- Bittersweet
- Character-driven
- Angsty
- Witty
- Romantic
- Page turner
- Morally complex
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Book details
- Length
- 336 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book