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This book had a lot of good points. It was a well written easy read that explored the main characters conflicting feelings between an old love and her husband. That element felt genuine. What I didn't like was that many of the charachters felt exagerreted to the point of seeming unreal and unrelatable. The rich Souhtherners with endless streams of money they are willing to shower the main charachter with or the trashy blue collar Pittsburgh tough sister. Everyone from the South was glamourous and wealthy and everyone mentioned from Pittsburgh was lower class. There was no real shades of grey besides Ellen. I wish the supporting cast had more realistic and layered personalities.


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Love the One You're With Emily Giffin 9780312348670 Books Reviews

I just discovered Emily's work. I wanted to read Something Borrowed and picked up this box set because I heard Something Blue was really good. I am so glad I did.

My favorite of the three books was love the one your with and I have already downloaded the next box set.

I felt like she was writing about me or a friend of mine. I got to the point I didn't want to step away from the book. I can not wait to read the next three books.
I really enjoyed Something Borrowed and loved Something Blue, but Love the One You're With started off very strong and then waned in the middle. I was hooked after reading the first few pages and eagerly devoured the next several chapters. However, towards the middle of the book, I felt the plot slowing a bit and then rushing at the end. Stick through it during the slower chapters though because this is definitely a book work reading for Giffin fans. I think Giffin's character development in Love the One You're With is very strong- you get to know all the main characters (even if they do seem a little stereotyped) and the storyline moves at a good pace. What I like about this story is that you can really relate to the emotions of the main character who is tore between an old, intense love and her current relationship. Every girl has felt this way at one point in time or another and Giffin does an excellent job of examining the varied emotions of everyone involved from the main character, to her current spouse, to the old boyfriend. You can easily relate to the situation and feel the emotions. Like some of Giffin's other books, the story wraps up way too quickly I thought. I feel almost as if she had to rush to an ending. This was somewhat disappointing but overall, I would say this is a great read for fans of Chick Lit and Emily Giffin. If you are not a fan of chick lit or you are looking for a more serious book, this will probably not be your favorite book. This is a book best read for fun during a vacation, on a long airplane trip, or when you need to "zone out." Although I would say there are dramatic moments in the book, I would characterize this more as a romantic drama versus a somber one.
When I hear the phrase "love the one you're with," I automatically think "settling." I wasn't sure what to expect with the plot of this book, but once again, Giffin didn't disappoint me. In fact, out her four books I've read, Love the One You're With is my favorite.

Not long after her wedding, Ellen has a chance encounter with a past love, Leo, and afterward, she's left wondering whether her life with her husband Andy is truly what she wants or if it's what she has decided to settle with. When Ellen and Andy move from New York City to the suburbs of Atlanta for Andy's career, her internal battle intensifies with resentment. As Ellen's marriage begins to fall apart, she's forced to choose between the life she has with Andy and the life she thought she lost long ago with Leo.

What I loved most about this book even more so than the other three books I read by Emily Giffin, was how real it was. Whether or not you've been in the same situation as Ellen or not, I think most readers will be able to identify with her internal battle. We all know what's "right," but sometimes we can't help but wonder "what if." The "what if" may not be better and we know that, but yet we still wonder. As Giffin so poignantly says "it's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved." But is pure human curiosity enough to take a leap of faith?

Love isn't straightforward. "Things are seldom as neat and tidy as that starry-eyed anecdote" shared with family and friends. Love isn't a constant fairy tale painted with romance day in and day out; it's a "choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what the obstacles or temptations stand in the way." Giffin illustrates this so well with her innate ability to characterize raw human emotion as she tempts her heroine and poses the age old ethical question do you stray or do you love the one you're with?
This book had a lot of good points. It was a well written easy read that explored the main characters conflicting feelings between an old love and her husband. That element felt genuine. What I didn't like was that many of the charachters felt exagerreted to the point of seeming unreal and unrelatable. The rich Souhtherners with endless streams of money they are willing to shower the main charachter with or the trashy blue collar Pittsburgh tough sister. Everyone from the South was glamourous and wealthy and everyone mentioned from Pittsburgh was lower class. There was no real shades of grey besides Ellen. I wish the supporting cast had more realistic and layered personalities.