A review by binreads
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

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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