Review: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Blurb from Goodreads:

Where do you see yourself in five years?

When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan 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 Review:
I was expecting this to be a lover story -- and it is -- but not in the way I thought!  It really is about friendship and knowing yourself and knowing how love might fit into that.  I tried this author's previous work and didn't care for it but I absolutely loved this book.  I felt that the story, the pace, and the character development were excellent and despite dealing with melancholy and serious topics, I loved reading this!

In Five Years comes out next month on March 10, 2020, you can purchase HERE!  I really loved this one and definitely recommend it -- I am still thinking about it!

All at once, she's in the driver's seat of her silver Range Rover and we're listening to Anna Begins with the windows down. It's summer, and it's late. We were supposed to be home hours ago, but no one is at Bella's house. Her mother is in New York for the opening of a restaurant and her father is traveling for work. 

We're coming from Josh's house--,or is it Trey's? They both have pools. We're still wearing our bathing suits, but they're dry now. The air is hot and sticky, and I have this sense in me--born of youth, and vodka and the Counting Crows--that we are invincible. I look over at Bella, sitting back at the wheel, mouth open, singing, and I think that I never want to be without her--and then, that I never want to share her. That she belong to me. That we belong to each other.