Thursday, June 23, 2011

Love the One You're With

We've all had past relationships where we stop and think what if. And the current relationship we might be in at the present, no matter how perfect, has little to do with the haunting thoughts of our fate. Its the simple complex way our minds and our hearts try to rationalize the how and the why of life.

Emily Griffin, in my opinion, is brilliant. Her books envelop the reader to where they feel as if they are living the characters' lives. Love the One You're With is no exception. Ellen is a Philly native who comes from a blue-collar family with a working father and a deceased mother. Her life of fate begins as she enters college in North Carolina's Wake Forest. Margo, a real Southern debutante from Georgia, plays her roommate turned best friend. And when the two inseparable girls move to the big city, Ellen falls for bad boy Leo while her bff disapproves. So its only fitting that nearly a decade after her heartbreaking end with Leo when Ellen is in marital bliss and approaching her one year anniversary with Andy (Margo's Southern brother), her run-in with the one who got away flusters her to the core. In a mix of career, love, and lust, she has to sort out her cynical thoughts and her true heart desires, and she risks losing it all.

For a taste of chapter one, click here. But be careful not to get sucked in...or you too might question your own fate!

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