Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Going back to The Host, I will borrow a quote from that book: "We're humans, and we are selfish." Currently I am reading the book Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin and I've noticed that the aforementioned quote is very accurate .
Unfortunately it does not follow my goal to read more of a variety of genres. hopefully I will finish by the end of the week to begin my goal. In this book, I am only several chapters in, and I am immediately drawn. The main character, Darcy, embraces a trait that, i think, everyone shares. In the few scenes that I have read, Darcy and her fiance Dex have called off the wedding in agreement. And each agree for different, yet very similar reasons. Only a few months into they are officially engaged, Darcy meets a friend of her fiance's. A friend that is also dating Darcy's best friend Rachel. Darcy then committed a horrible deed when she slept with her fiance's friend who also happened to be dating her best friend. I would call that a very sticky situation. But there's more... Just a week before the wedding Dex decided to confront Darcy to end the wedding and of course she could deny this. And she only agreed because of her own doings. Turns out though, this was a two way street. Dex had apparently been sleeping with Rachel, Darcy's best friend.

Darcy's reaction was a very surprising element for me. In hearing the her best friend had an affair with her fiance she was completely and utterly outraged. And yet, this was the identical thing that she had done to the both of them. here's where the human selfish instincts come in. After a tragic crisis nobody wants fingers pointed at them. Everyone wants everyone else on their side. In my opinion, you can never tell a story the exact same way every time, and in my experience details very according to your audience. Darcy, knowing full well she had done the same thing, didn't not want to except blame. Her mind was actually far from it: She wanted revenge. Some thoughts that crossed her mind were, murder and suicide. Eventually she came to the conclusion that a distressed ex fiance and ex best friend could be cured with some therapy if she were to commit suicide. Her best conclusion only came later on: Happiness. If she lived on happy, she would most likely mess with the emotion of both Dex and Rachel. Oh, and did I mention that Darcy got pregnant with Dex's friend, Marcus? Well, as Greg always says, "you need to have a conflict right at the beginning to interest the reader." And i completely agree that i definitely want to find out how Darcy and Marcus will continue on as characters.