A review by jennstrub
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

first five star of the year. holy crap what a book. I have no words, my eyes are puffy from sobbing. this book is so powerful in many different ways. a fiction love story where the fmc, dannie, runs her life around numbers and plans. when she’s on the job interview of her life, she knows what the next 5 years of her life will look like: when she’ll get married to her current boyfriend, where she’ll be living, how high up in the company she’s currently interviewing for. her entire life is planned. after a long night and one heck of a realistic dream where dannie finds herself in a different apartment, with a different man, and a different ring on her finger, exactly 5 years into the future to the day, to the hour; 11:59pm. her whole life begins to unravel in front of her. what she once could plan for, is not out of her control and she doesn’t understand how to live a life she has no control over. over the next couple of years, we see dannie try to reel in this life, to protect and keep the ones she loves the most, and when tragedy strikes, she is left to learn that before the clock turns everything is not planned, unexpected things happen, and that there is a life that exists in color, there’s suffocating love & devotion, that isn’t black and white and by the book. even with no plan, there is still lots of life to live. 
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