I love reading books by Emily Giffin. I just love her characters and her stories and I look forward to her publishing dates because of it.
Reading First Comes Love was no different for me. I was elated to get the emails from Barnes and Noble and Amazon. I was excited to pre-order the book (and was even more excited to learn that I saved money with Amazon's pre-order price guarantee) and was so happy that the book reading Gods smiled down on me and I finished one book the same day Giffin's book arrived in my mailbox. I happily parked myself on my favorite part of the sofa and devoured First Comes Love in a little over a day. I felt more like I was watching a movie than reading it book. Each word flowed into the next so smoothly. Reading this book was certainly not work.
The first chapter sent me reeling in despair but then I settled into the stories of Josie and Meredith, sisters who are more different than night and day. Told in alternating chapters, we get the current stories of these sisters as they try to make the most of the lives they have. Both are unhappy but one (Josie) is trying hard to find happiness while the other (Meredith) just sort of feels like she has to deal with the life she has and not complain about it.
I'd like to tell you that in the end both end up happy and both get what they want from life, but I am fairly certain there was no real end to this story. I mean, the book ended. The pages ran out, but I am pretty sure the stories of Josie and Meredith have just begun. Fans of Emily Giffin will recall Something Borrowed, followed by Something Blue, a sequel of sorts. I am so hoping that First Comes Love will be followed by "Then Comes Marriage," because I NEED to know what happens to these characters. NEED. TO. KNOW.
You will love this story. Trust me. You will. But maybe do yourself a favor and wait and read it in about a year and a half. It takes Giffin about two years to write/publish a book so by then she might be close to publishing the next book and you can read one and then go straight into the other. And if I find out that this book is stand alone, I will be emailing Giffin for some answers. Because she left this one hanging with a lot of unanswered questions.
Happy reading!
-Dodie
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