Books from the Backlist Review of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Today I reached back into my Netgalley shelves and pulled out In Five Years by Rebecca Serle. A wonderful novel that I should have read right away.
Hindsight right!
Enjoy!

ISBN-13: 978-1982137441
Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date: 3-10-2020
Length: 272pp
Source: Netgalley/Publisher for review
Buy It: Amazon/ B&N/ IndieBound

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Overview:

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick

“In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

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.

Praise:

My Review:

In Five Years
Rebecca Serle

 

I have no idea why it took me so long to read Serle’s March 2020 release, In Five Years because it was a one sitting, beyond any expectation I could have had, read and no wonder it was on so many book-club pick lists. The novel opens on Dannie’s engagement day and after celebrating a little too much she wakes up in a different life. From then on Serle keeps her audience engaged learning all about Dannie and Bella, their special friendship, their loves, friends, families, how they’re different and how they’re alike and as the layers are peeled she reveals two beautiful, complicated besties. With a conversational narrative, an assemblage of unforgettable characters and a page turning one of a kind plot Serle delivers an unforgettable tale. This novel will appeal to fans of women’s fiction, or books about friends and readers will not be able to put this one down.

Dannie and Bella have been best friends since they were seven but they are as different as night and day. Bella is impulsive, is in love with love and has been in dozens of relationships, changes men, careers, lifestyles and time zones like most of the world changes socks. Where as, Dannie has had her life planned since she was young and she’s right on track for her five year plan, has the perfect investment banker boyfriend, living in the perfect New York apartment, working as a corporate lawyer at the NY firm she’s wanted to work at since she was a small girl. Then on the night Dannie gets engaged she experiences something she doesn’t know if it’s a dream a premonition or the result of too much celebratory champagne when she wakes up five years in the future in a strange apartment, in bed with a man who didn’t just put a ring on her having the best sex of her life.

 

About the author:

Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives in New York and Los Angeles. Serle developed the hit TV adaptation of her YA series Famous in Love, and is also the author of The Dinner List, and YA novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. She received her MFA from the New School in NYC. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com.

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And will be available March of 2022