Another Great Book!
So this book is a new release from Rebecca Serle, “In Five Years”.
Blurb:
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.
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I can’t help but see myself in Dannie. I have been always the careful one, always thinking that if I do this this will lead to this. Causality has always been my way of living and was also the way I was brought up. It has always been effective, still is. Though it has it’s disadvantages but I’m not gonna talk about that.
The book gravitated on relationships, especially friendship between Dannie and Bella. They have this strong and profound relationship probably because they met when they were little. They have opposite personalities but one compliments the other.
When I started reading I began to predict some disappointments for Dannie but it never came out that way. I was amazed by their kind of friendship, I wonder if that kind really exists. I thought for a second Dannie might have actual feelings for Bella, as in romantically but there isn’t. Both their relationships with men where to good to be true but their friendship has always been tight. Being together for so long has made it much stronger, being there for each other when life happens when they were young up until becoming adults.
I have many highlights of beautiful and touching lines from the book but this simplest one stuck,
‘Love doesn’t require a future.’
Made me realize of the many cliches about descriptions about love. It is what it is as long as it’s felt — it exists.
I can make a lot of statements about this but I would greatly suggest you read the book. I am getting Serle’s other books soon, I’m kind of loving her writing. I just wish she would give a more elaborate ending for Dannie and Aaron, a second book perhaps? I hope so…
In Five Years : A Novel by Rebecca Serle is out now.
Gave it 4 on Goodreads!
JO and Behold 