My relationship with Emily Giffin novels are the picturesque definition of a true LOVE/HATE relationship, I think..... 
 On the one hand, you have magnificent gems of chick lit goodness, like Something Borrowed and Something Blue..... 
 Then on the other hand, you have about half of the other completely forgettable stories by this author. 
 And, quite unfortunately, I doubt anyone will remember FIRST COMES LOVE by the time she churns out her next book. 
 Like, how do you even bother finishing a book when you literally DESPITE every single one of its characters?!! I've come to love Giffin's whole *THING* of forbidden love and complicated relationships.... so when I read the back of this novel and saw that it related to sisters trying to find their way after the death of their brother, I admit that I wasn't expecting anything AMAZING here. 
 Even so, I kept WAITING for a twist or a turn that would bring in a little excitement and help me feel the slightest bit engaged with these miserable, selfish characters. And I truly saw SO many opportunities..... and every single last one of them was completely and utterly LOST in this story. 
 We have one sister, Meredith, who is negative, overbearing, condescending, and generally just a holier-than-thou jerk of a character who hates her fabulous job and her fabulous husband and every other single thing and person she encounters throughout the story. Then we have the other sister, who was so dull I can't even remember her name, beyond the fact that she blathered on endlessly about wanting a child and a boyfriend and that she had the perfect male best friend who might father her baby but who could never be the object of her romantic relationships. 
 And that's truthfully just about everything that happens in this story. Both sisters hate their lives and they blame everyone around them for putting them in their current situation. They see the loss of their brother as the moment everything went wrong, and even seek out his long-lost college girlfriend, who I expected to drop some kind of massive literary bomb to get the story rolling, but NOPE, she just reveals that she moved on with a woman and that she barely remember this young love of hers from so many years ago. 
 Then the sister who has a baby discovers that the other sister's husband, who she doesn't love and doesn't want to be with anyways, has a deep, dark secret concerning the death of the brother.... except, it turns out to be nothing, just like everything else in this story. 
 Even the ending was just SO..... NOTHING! SO WHAT?! I turned the page back and forth a few times to see if somebody's dog chewed out the last chapter of my book or something... but no... it was really just THAT anticlimactic. 
 That being said, I do think Emily Giffin is good at what she does, and I CANNOT possibly even give one star to the brains behind some of the best chick lit novels EVER WRITTEN (Something Borrowed/Something Blue).... 
 Next time, though, maybe she should just host a contest. Let somebody else come up with the idea, and you write the story.... because plots like this one aren't really working for anybody, I don't imagine!