Love the One You're With | 
| Author: Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 72
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 0312348673
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312348670
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Product Description
How do you know if you’ve found the one? Can you really love the one you’re with when you can’t forget the one who got away?
Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Baby Proof, poses these questions—and many more—with her highly anticipated, thought-provoking new novel Love the One You’re With.
Ellen and Andy’s first year of marriage doesn’t just seem perfect, it is perfect. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they bring out the best in each other. But one fateful afternoon, Ellen runs into Leo for the first time in eight years. Leo, the one who brought out the worst in her. Leo, the one who left her heartbroken with no explanation. Leo, the one she could never quite forget. When his reappearance ignites long-dormant emotions, Ellen begins to question whether the life she’s living is the one she’s meant to live. At once heartbreaking and funny, Love the One You’re With is a tale of lost loves and found fortunes—and will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered what if.
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 Not what I was expecting July 25, 2008
I was so looking forward to this book, but I was a little disappointed. It was more sad than anything, even at the end.
A woman named Ellen who is happily married to her best friend's brother, Andy. Her life seems blissfully happy until she runs into the ex that broke her heart. After learning how he ended things and hurt her, it's hard to understand why she would want to revisit that and risk ruining her relationship. But of course she does, and then begins to questions her life and all the decisions she has made. It's almost a little maddening to read, you want to reach in and shake her. But I'm sure most people can relate to making the wrong decision at times, but I just didn't like the conclusion of this book. I don't know, the whole thing seemed unsettling, and I was looking for a fun relaxing read.
 Awesome July 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book! The story was fluid and well constructed and the main character very real and relatable. I thought the author did a good job of turning a conventional love story plot into something more substantial, and her observations on love as something other than some sappy force of passion were unique (esp. to these "chick" type of books). I would wholeheartedly recommend this book.
Good Book. Makes You Feel, Guilty? July 25, 2008
I was totally captivated by this boook, at least through the first half. Although it is totally relatable, it seems almost, predictable. While reading it, I felt guilty, like I was cheating on my husband. Everyone has the ex that they think about every now and then, but this book takes it farther. Also, the beginning about the character being so OCD she knows the exact day after her wedding that she runs into her ex, doesn't really follow through. She only mentions being OCD again once, while she is labeling things. It was a weird start. Good book, but, it is what it is.
great beach read!!! July 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
loved this book! emily griffin is a great writer.....i loved soomething borrowed and something blue, so when i saw this one out, i had to buy it. the ending is a total surprise and i loved it. it made me believe in true love again! great writing!
Way More than Chick Lit July 22, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ellen Dempsey is firmly entrenched in her perfect life with her perfect husband and perfect job and perfect best friend in the most perfect city of all when a chance encounter puts her face-to-face with "the one that got away." Suddenly, her life doesn't seem so perfect anymore, and she must decide whether what she has is worth saying no to what she once lost.
Though you could classify this book as "chick lit," I found Giffin's writing to be far more smooth and her characters far deeper than most chick lit. While it's still light reading, the emotions portrayed are raw and honest, and Ellen's character so true that the book should be seen as a great read, in or out of the chick lit genre.
The one thing that bothered me was the passing reference to Ellen's OCD... if it is mentioned in the first few pages of the book as a defining characteristic, I think it should be referred to more than it was (the old adage about if there's a gun on the set in Act I, it better be used by Act III). All the same, that's a minor gripe and one I'm willing to overlook.
Great read.
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