In Five Years

Genre: Contemporary / Romance

Author: Rebecca Serle

Pages: 272

Publisher: Atria Books (March 10, 2020)

Book Description:

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers.

She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content.

But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.

Thoughts:

On the night Dannie gets engaged, she has a dream five years into the future that she wakes up with another man next to her. When she wakes up, she’s on a mission to stop this future from happening (although one could argue she wanted it to happen until she found out who the man actually was).

While this book is about Love, it is about the various places and forms that it can often be found: friendship, intimate, dating, marriage, and parental. Each person loves in a different way, and also has different expectations on the love they receive.

“If you can reach out and hold the other person’s hand, does the distance matter? Is simply being able to see someone valuable?” (Pg 213) This was one of many quotes that made you stop, think and reflect.

This was definitely a love story, although not in the way I was expecting. It left me bawling and surprised by the unexpected twists this book took. It was a fast-paced story on love, friendship, career/drive, planning, loss, fate, foreshadowing and the inability to change your destiny.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫