In five years by Rebbeca Serle (book review)

 

Atria Books|2020|March

🚫 individuals lower than 18.

Love, friendship, parenthood, dating, cancer.

🔺 a bit of a tear jerker

210 pages

Forty one chapters.

(Excluding an epilogue)

Genre: contemporary adult fiction

“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future "

        -Rebecca Serle, In Five Years.

   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.

     Sigh… in Five Years by Rebecca Serle is an amazing beautiful sorry about love and friendship. I write spoiler reviews and it is going to be tricky reviewing this book without being a spoiler.

Actually picking up In Five Years wasn't entirely thrilling; it had been on my tbr for quite a long time, and one day after finishing Slay by Brittney Morris, I wanted something "adult-y" or "adult-ish" whichever. I was tired of reading young adult books and then I saw In Five Years on my shelf and I was like why haven't I read this book yet? So I picked it up and flipped the book open. And boy….was I blown away?

I had thought it was something but it was something else entirely. If you are an avid reader, you would surely relate. The book, In five years, is a secret gold mine. You know that kinda food that doesn't look great but tastes fantastic! Yeah….something like that. I really don't know why the book didn't get much hype, or did it? Maybe I was wallowing in school books when it was trending on booktok and bookstagram, but still the book was great, even though the cover wasn't pretty or cute or anything it is still nice but mute and mature, which speaks a lot about the book. And yeah it almost made me cry.

  The writing was so fluid, like orange juice. It wasn't the gripping kind of book but it was pleasant to read. It was realistic and mature and I loved the characters, they were relatable in a way. Even though they are all really comfortable, still...

This book will be getting an 18/20.

It was great.