Book Review: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
With psychic visions and a woman who desperately needs to find herself, I’m going to review In Five Years for you guys so you can know whether or not you’ll find it worthwhile. I honestly thought this was a meh read for me….
Book Information
Dannie knows what she wants. She has everything planned: from how long she has to date someone before moving in together to when she’ll get proposed to. So, when she has a vision of her in five years having sex with a man who isn’t her fiancé, she doesn’t know what to think when she comes back to the present. Especially when she meets this mystery man five years later.
Review | Heidi Dischler
I honestly don’t know what it was about this novel, but I really didn’t like the writing style. Maybe because it felt so forced with very little contractions. He did not. She could not. They had not. It was all too… formal? But there were many things about this novel that were beautiful. Dannie and Belle’s friendship? Absolute perfection.
Besides the ending, this book wasn’t that terrible. Like I mentioned above, it was simply just meh for me. But I am pretty upset about some things that happened.
Regardless of my own personal opinions about some of the characters’ decisions in this book, it really was written well and had a great plot. It just made me really upset. Which, I guess, means Rebecca Serle is a great writer for making me feel so vehemently about this situation.
Spoilers ahead.
All I’m going to say it, first of all, you choose your own fate. No one chooses it for you. You can always change the path you’re on. So WHY, then, did Dannie decide to have sex with Belle’s fiancé while Belle was DYING OF CANCER???? Like excuse me? What kind of shit friend are you.
Okay, rant over.
Overall, I did like the way that Dannie’s character arc developed and how she found herself throughout the novel. I didn’t like the heavy reliance on fate and things that are meant to be. Just my opinion. Solid meh.
Source: Audiobook from Libby public library
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