Review: The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott

The Unwritten Rule

By: Elizabeth Scott

Publication Date March 16th 2010

Published By Simon Pulse

224 Pages, Hardcover

(won from ChicaReader)

Summary from goodreads:

"Everyone knows the unwritten rule: You don't like your best friend's boyfriend.

Sarah has had a crush on Ryan for years. He's easy to talk to, supersmart, and totally gets her. Lately it even seems like he's paying extra attention to her. Everything would be perfect except for two things: Ryan is Brianna's boyfriend, and Brianna is Sarah's best friend.

Sarah forces herself to avoid Ryan and tries to convince herself not to like him. She feels so guilty for wanting him, and the last thing she wants is to hurt her best friend. But when she's thrown together with Ryan one night, something happens. It's wonderful...and awful.

Sarah is torn apart by guilt, but what she feels is nothing short of addiction, and she can't stop herself from wanting more..."

My Review: *** = 3 Stars

(spoilers included)

I really, really wanted to love this, and parts of it I did love, but overall it was just blehh. I read it in one sitting because it was written well enough for me to want to know what happened next, but I didn't like the characters all too much. Brianna is a terrible friend. She may have a crappy home life, but that doesn't mean you have to put your friend down, which she actually does a lot throughout the book. Sarah is somewhat stupid. I'm sorry but if a guy is willing to cheat on a girl to be with you, then you have to at least think that one day he might be willing to cheat on you to be with another girl. Ryan is just, well he's just a guy. He should have grown a set and simply dumped Brianna if he wanted to be with Sarah, but he didn't. What I did like about the book: Scott does an EXCELLENT job at writing the emotions in this book. When Sarah longed to be with Ryan, so did I. The confusion, the hurt, all of it was so well written. If it wasn't for the great writing I would have hated this book. I also liked that in the end, everything wasn't perfect. I actually expected for things to get bad before they got better for the two BFF's but I was happy that it didn't end well for them. I honestly don't think they should have been best friends anyways, so I'm glad that Ryan and Brianna hit splitsville and Ryan and Sarah ended up the happy couple. 

This is the first book by Elizabeth Scott that I've read, and while it wasn't my favorite book, it won't be the last one I read by her. I might not have liked the story itself but I liked the writing and I look forward to reading some other work by her.

Have you read The Unwritten Rule? What's your opinion on the best friends/boyfriends subject??

Sherry <3