Love the One You're With | 
 enlarge | Author: Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  148 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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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
ASIN: 0312348673
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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 Will She or Won't She? July 3, 2008
Eileen has been married to Andy for one hundred days when she bumps into Leo in Union Square, the love of any earlier life, the one who she let go. She tells Leo she's married now and he says he just wants to be friends. She agrees, but decides not to tell Andy.
Eileen's mother died when she was thirteen, survived by Eileen, her old sister suzanne and her father. Eileen leaves home after high school, goes to college where she rooms with Margot, a beauty queen daughter of a wealthy attorney. Andy is Margot's older brother.
After college Eileen and Margot get an apartment in New York. Eileen gets a job as a waitress, but photography has always been her first love and she eventually gets a job in a photo lab. Then she gets a summons for jury duty. Leo is on the jury too.
They become an item, Eileen is love, but after a year or so Eileen feels Leo drifting away and she begins to wonder if he loves her like she loves him. She suggests they break up, expecting Leo to resist, however he does not. Alone now, Eileen seeks refuge in photography and after a bit starts dating and as time goes on, she falls in love with Margot's older brother, who is sweet and kind and has kind of always been around.
Okay, so what is Eileen going to do now? Clearly it's wrong for her to go out with Leo in any capacity. He's her past. However, she kind of can't help herself. One thing leads to another and Eileen finds herself in L.A. with sister Suzanne on a photo shoot when she runs into, you guessed it, Leo. She is so far from home. What will she do?
Choices, life is all about choices. We make `em and we should live with 'em, but sometimes it's not so easy. Sometimes you wonder what if you'd have done things differently. Sometimes your heart pulls you in different directions, sometimes you make the right choice sometimes you do something foolish. That's what I like about Emily Giffin's stories, they seem to be about real people who sometimes seriously goof up, like we all do. I was captured by this one, wondering all the way through, will she or won't she? You gotta read the book to find out. You won't be disappointed.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene, Number One fan of Ken Douglas, writer of Tangerine Dream, Desperation Moon & Running Scared. One of the advantages of being married to a writer is that there are plenty of good books around the house. It's turned me into quite a reader. In addition to Ken's books you might also want to check out Something Borrowed & Something Blue, two other fine stories by Emily Giffin.
A great summer read July 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Love the one you're with....was a great summer read. Yes, some of the more critical readers might have a point, but it is a pleasant book with the storyline "the road not taken". As a stay at home, mom of two, I throughly enjoyed the escape that Ms. Giffin provided for me with this book. I would recommend it.
Oh the drama! July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love triangles are nothing new and it takes a talented writer to really make something fresh and moving out of that well worn storyline. But Emily Giffin manages to do that with Love the One You're With. The basic story is nothing new: a newlywed who is in a happy, seemingly perfect marriage until she runs into an ex-boyfriend who broke her heart years earlier. All sorts of unresolved feelings come to the surface and suddenly this happy newlywed isn't so happy anymore.
What Giffin does that makes this book so great is that she takes the reader deep into the main character's head from the moment that the ex reappears, and you start seeing that maybe it's not the ex-boyfriend that's causing all the strife in her fledgling marriage but all sorts of other issues that have been glossed over in her fairy tale romance with her husband, issues like class insecurities, the sense of losing your own identity when you commit to someone else, learning to become a part of another family even though you're scared you'll lose your connection to your own (this is a big issue in this book, as the main character's mother has died and her family is sort of drifting apart). This is a great book that successfully juggles all of these side topics in the framework of a simple romantic storyline. It's like listening in on a person who is trying to figure out what to do about the most important people in her life and Giffin manages to get it right at just about every thought and feeling she has. If you read this book carefully, it has a lot to say about how we choose the ones we love and the life we want.
 Extremely Disappointing July 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved Emily Giffin's other novels so I couldn't wait for her newest to be released. I found this book to be predictable and boring. The characters weren't very likable, the story DRUG on for what seemed like an eternity, and the ending was extremely disappointing. Giffin has such great talent, as evidenced by "Baby Proof", "Something Borrowed", and "Something Blue", however that talent is poorly put to use with "Love The One You're With". I wouldn't recommend buying it at the regular price- check it out from the library or find a dummy like me who wasted $17 and borrow it from them.
 Easy read July 1, 2008
Found this book to be a nice summertime on-the-deck easy read. Pleasant, not particularly great, but enjoyable.
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