![]() ![]() But aside from what’s on the surface, Darcy has very little confidence, and her sense of self is thrown into even greater turmoil when she realizes, early in the book, that her ex-fiancé has fallen effortlessly in love with Rachel, who is far less pretty than Darcy, but has much more going for her. Darcy has always been the prettiest girl in any room, one who immediately judges other women based on their beauty in relation to hers. Despite her good looks, she’s highly insecure, mainly because of a self-perceived lack of intelligence. ![]() Those of us who identify with Rachel, Darcy’s ex-best friend and all-around good girl (who, with Giffin’s trademark line-blurring, has an affair with Darcy’s fiancé in the first book), take perverse pleasure in Darcy’s flaws. In "Something Blue," the follow-up to Giffin’s "Something Borrowed," we are once again faced with Darcy Rhone, a selfish and hyper-competitive shrew who is every girl’s nightmare. ![]() Rather, she succeeds in making them painfully human. She refuses to see her characters as Disney-esque forces of good or evil. We are, as the song says, “a little bit of everything all rolled into one.” So when a writer comes along who is adept at uncovering the nuanced layers of the female psyche rather than offering up a black-and-white portrayal of insipid shallowness, we treasure her work. Most women are notoriously complex creatures, much to the dismay of our male counterparts. ![]()
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