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Daqui a Cinco Anos... by Rebecca Serle

27 reviews

datskira's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Vomit, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Blood, and Car accident

chris_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

It was a little too wealthy-corporate-New York for my taste, but it kept my attention. The characters' journey was compelling and not too predictable. I even cried a little. And I definitely agree with people saying this isn't a romance (though there are romantic elements). It is primarily about FRIENDSHIP and SELF DISCOVERY. 
*and privilege, but that's incidental. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Terminal illness, Blood, and Vomit

lqvekanej's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Infidelity, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Infertility, and Alcohol

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

The friendship in this book made me cry. It's just so strong and fierce. I don't know how I feel about certain plot points, but overall I enjoyed this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.75

Big fan of love stories about friendship. This tore a hole through my heart but it was such a good read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

ashlikes's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Vomit, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Car accident, Abortion, and Classism

binreads's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

3.0

let me start off by saying, i think the summary completely misrepresents the book. it’s a solid story with a great message about love but I wish the summary was more lending to what the story is actually about.

also, a lot of it doesn’t quite add up and seems extremely unrealistic after getting to know these characters.Honestly, I didn’t really enjoy the way the ending wrapped up. I agree with some reviews on here with people saying that nothing really even happens in this book.

Major spoilers ahead:

 

first of all, dannie having sex with a random man from the future in the first place…how you gonna end up in a random apartment, with a random man and you just have sex with him??? Wouldn’t you be thinking holy crap, where is my fiancé? Do I have amnesia??? Let me call Bella, my bestfriend who is so important to me, she’ll help me? 

i guess that’s the part that really confuses me. Because yes, at the end all the questions we had about her meeting with Aaron and being in that apartment are answered and yet…it doesn’t make any sense to me. 
Everything that happened with Bella was just sad. Made me tear up a lil. I liked her character a lot.

But if we’re being real, David was right for being mad at Dannie!!! Everything we’ve learned about her is that she had a plan and sticks to the rules. So David should’ve known something was off by like year 2 of the wedding being postponed. 

the cover is super cute though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Another one in the column of Books That Made Me Ugly Cry!!! Hooray, for I so dearly love a story that brings such emotions to the forefront. (Not sarcasm, btw)

I had no idea what to expect going into this book. Well, that’s a lie. I knew it was a love story, and I’d heard it would make me cry.

But I did not anticipate in the slightest, why it would make me cry. Or what kind of love story I’d feel very deeply apart of. 

You very easily slip in to this story. It reads like any other, until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, you simply must keep reading to see where it leads. Love, heartbreak, celebration, tragedy, compromise, friendship. Life, changing without approval, no matter how much you plan for it not to. Life, out of your hands. 

“In Five Years” is as comforting as it is devastating. It’s both a tight, warm hug and a fierce, bitter wind. It answers the questions you’ve never even thought about before, and asks of you things you’ve never had to give.

Give it all. The characters in this novel deserve it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Infertility, Sexual content, Blood, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity and Antisemitism

persikan_05's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

leahrosiee's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

Okay that was SAD????
It was a little predictable but still quite a good, quick read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity, Antisemitism, and Alcohol