Reviews

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

jhocaluk's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

mervelous's review

2.0

The misleading synopsis :( I thought this will be a cute read boy i was wrong.
I hate sad stories and ambiguous endings. I need characters to live happily ever after once we are apart. I just feel sad overall and i don't like the main character much.

shannonshilts's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

addydr's review

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Only reason I didn’t give it five stars is because I wish there was a tad more of plot development. 

jjiissee's review

3.0

3.5⭐️

ashleydeandrea's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

“An unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.”

This book follows Dannie, a woman who seems to have her life right on track. She met a man, moved in with him, has a great job, he proposes and that same night she has a dream that’s she’s in a completely different apartment with a different man. It’s so real she thinks it’s actually her life. She wakes up from her vivid dream back with her fiancé and now she’s questioning everything… 

hyperashley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

r_r_r's review against another edition

2.0

NOT What I expected it to be
2*

heatherems's review

3.0

I finished this book and threw it angrily onto the floor. It was an easy read. The premise was enough to hook me. The main character, Dannie, gets engaged and lands her dream job all on the same day and then has a dream or premonition where she experiences an hour in her own life five years ahead. She's with a different man in a different apartment and she actually feels passion (for the first time ever??). It's enough to make her think for a REALLY long time whether she ought to get married.

The best character in the book, the one with the joie de vivre, is Bella, and she knows how to live her life. The other characters are joyless, stagnant......successful in their careers......but otherwise joyless and stagnant. The author plays with the reader's emotions through the guise of a young person getting a devastating disease.

The ending, although maybe realistic, is gloomy and dissatisfying. Nobody gets what they want. And that great hook! So much unrealized potential! Why not a little more magical realism? Ugh. Not recommended.

minzzz's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5