I haven’t seen the last season yet, so no spoilers please!). I love the characters, and they’re so engaging, but Marshall and Lily are my favorite because they love each other so deeply and they’re monogamous (or so I assume. I know we’re living in the 21st century, but I really don’t know how none of them have an STD. With the sluttiness case, the loose morals of the whole HIMYM gang can get a little appalling. Spoiler alert for early seasons of How I Met Your Mother: once Ted cheats, I could never root for him the same way. Once I see a character cheat, I never look at them the same again. But it deeply bothers me, and its an irreversible path. After years of watching television, movie and book characters cheat and lie, it becomes less offensive simply because of overexposure. Adultery bothers me because now it is often the protagonist committing the offense, and because they’re likable, you want to forgive them and justify their actions. There are two main story lines in mainstream media that really bother me: adultery and, ahem, sluttiness (for both males and females). It sounded quirky and interesting and, best of all, free of adultery. It was about small town life in Texas, and a protagonist obsessed with football. There’s a gazebo and everything!) when I came across a new release of Giffin’s titled The One and Only. I was exploring the library in our new town (which, by the way, is absolutely adorable. I was intrigued by this New York Times bestselling author, but the plot lines of those two novels were just too off-putting for me. Although the book explores the ethics of adultery, I could just never bring myself to pick it up. I’m really bothered by infidelity, and have no interest in reading about characters who partake of it. The two books I’m most familiar with, Something Borrowed and Something Blue, are centered around infidelity.
But one thing always held me back: the plot lines. I’ve been tempted to read Emily Giffin before, because I’d heard she was a great author.
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