BOOK REVIEW: IN FIVE YEARS BY REBECCA SERLE

 

IN FIVE YEARS BY REBECCA SERLE

Where do you see yourself in five years?

When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan.

But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It’s the same night—December 15—but 2025, five years in the future.

After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can’t shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn’t the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind.

That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.

Brimming with joy and heartbreak, In Five Years is an unforgettable love story that reminds us of the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictable nature of destiny.

MY THOUGHTS 

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This was my good reads book club pick for May and it was ok.

This story was surprising because in reading the synopsis I really thought that it was a romance novel but instead I read a story about friendship and dealing with loss.

Dannie, a thirty something year old lawyer at the height of her career, who is engaged to a decent guy seems to have life figured out. She has a dream that takes her five years in the future where she is supposedly engaged to the handsome Aaron. This dream seems so real that Dannie could not shake the uneasy feeling that she may meet this guy. She actually does meet Aaron but not in the way she expects cause ***SPOILER*** He is dating her best friend BELLA.

Bella seems to be having the time of her life, she is carefree but then tragedy strikes and everything isn't the same anymore.

As you get to the middle of the book the story really takes a twist and in my opinion it becomes very sad. I liked the story line, I didn't love the book as I thought I would have though. I would recommend although it was not my favourite.

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