He has his own place, of course. His own life. The one he was living this time last year. Before the tides of fate swept him up and deposited him here.’

Dannie is comfortable with numbers. Clear language. Concrete information. The black and white. She is exacting, polished and never surprised. She has a 5 year plan, including working at the law firm she decided on at age 10, Gramercy Park and a future with David, her boyfriend of two years.

Until she wakes, mid nap, to a date 5 years in the future and sees nothing as she pictured. There’s the Brooklyn bridge, a loft in Dumbo and ...another man. Aaron. How could this be?

Back in the present, she just can’t shake the feeling that it was more than a dream. Something pre-ordained. Fate? But she doesn’t believe in fate. She believes in concrete plans.

Nevertheless, she spends the next 4.5 years avoiding making any decisions, knowing if she chooses one path, she inadvertently closes the other door.

That is, until she meets her best friends new man...Aaron Gregory.

This is a super interesting concept that explores how much control you have over your life vs how much of it is already written in the stars.

But, this books isn’t just about loving your significant other, but a celebration of love in all its forms. And it’s this love that, when presented with the absolute worst situation, despite the evidence, numbers, the odds, we find ourselves wanting to believe in the extraordinary. It’s about asking for more, even when life feels ok. To live in colour, instead of black and white. This book left me with all the feels. A solid 5 star read for me!

Thank you! We included the book on Caboodle (20 books to look out for in 2020) and Pretty Books (5 books I'm looking forward to in 2020), and will read and review on Pretty Books!

I was looking forward to reading this book so much. The description made it sound like it would be a semi magical realism story with some time travel and the like. It had a little bit.. a dream I just it could be more accurately described as. But it was over within ten minutes of reading.
That being said, it is still an awesome book, which I really enjoyed. It was heartwarming and refreshing, reminded me a little of Sophie Kinsella and Beth O"Leary rolled into one.

This book just got to me from the opening sentence and I really couldn't put it down. Something different, I won't spoil it for others by saying more, just read it. I can't recommend enough. Dare I say the next P.S. I love you? @QuercusBooks @RebeccaASerle #InFiveYears #Netgalley

Clever, original, moving, surprising. I'd heard a lot of buzz about In Five Years and it more than lived up to every bit. A superb read.

Note: An ARC was generously given by Netgalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.

Ah in five years...more like 5 minutes of time travel and warming up to the new guy whose house she winds up being in.

The plot is the only interesting thing I seem to like. It starts of as an interviewer asks our heroine, what she might end up doing in the next 5 years (usually it's 10 years..but guess they wanted her young..) and her fiance and her go to a dinner, they get engaged (blah, blah, blah) and she wakes up next morning to find out she's somewhere else, and with someone else.

Real fun, you see. Not even being able to understand your future.

But.

The plot is a bit too fast-paced for my liking, the writing is fine as it can be. However the romance is a bit hard to believe and there seems to be not a lot of the summary involved, the cover also seems to be missing.

So...

Feels like I'm reading an entirely different story.

Overall, I won't recommend this story. It's not as good as I'd thought it be.

Until the next read,

TMR

I enjoyed this but I felt it could have been so much better, one main issue was the characters they were so flat and one dimensional, I couldn’t connnect with them at all and it was slow to start. I absolutely adored reading about New York, the writing is good as it brought back memories for me like they were fresh and I was there, I just think it needed more character work and I think if it did it could be a 5 star read.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

Dannie Kohan plans every moment of her life so when asked in an interview where she sees herself in five years she knows exactly. Her boyfriend, David, proposes to her that day but she has a strange dream that night – showing her living a completely different life five years later! She is somewhere else and WITH someone else. She thinks of it as an odd dream and carries on with her life until she meets the man from her dream.
In all honesty I wasn’t swept up in the story as I had hoped I would be. I found the first half of the book to be slow, characters I didn’t engage with or relate too at all. Dannie just seems so full of herself, shallow and annoying if I’m honest. The storyline wasn’t really what I expected, although I admit additional twists were a good surprise and did make the second of the book a lot more interesting.
I did enjoy the Bella character – she brought some life, colour and spirit to the book. I was glad she got to be an integral part of the story.
Its just a shame the book in general just didn’t quite click with me, felt a bit all over the place for me.

Loved this book! Couldn’t put it down, and read in one sitting. Not your average love and relationship story but all the better for it. At the beginning of the story I thought I knew exactly where it was leading, but I was SO wrong. Left me in floods of tears, always a sign that I have been invested in the characters.

@RebeccaASerle #InFiveYears is a poignant and smart story of friendship and love that touched my heart.

What I liked most about this novel was that it subverted my expectations. I thought it would be a typical romance about a girl who meets a boy, but it subverted my expectations in the best possible ways: it's about ambition, life plans and friendship.

I would have liked a bit more grit and depth, but that's personal taste and not a criticism of the novel itself, which I think will appeal to many fans of romance and women's fiction.

Unfortunately, this one just wasn't for me. I couldn't connect with the main character or any of the supporting characters. When reading, I like to become part of the story, but this didn't happen as I read this book. I felt like I was being told the story instead of feeling like I was the main character, Dannie.

Thanks for the NetGalley copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. This is a love story set across a lifetime and over a period of five years, Dannie and Bella have been best friends for a lifetime despite their different lifestyles and home backgrounds. circumstances change and the love triangle, seen in a flash forward, adds an interesting dimension to the tale. It's an emotional journey for the main protagonists, and there may be tears shed by the end.
#Imnotcryingyourecrying

Dannie Kohan plans every moment of her life down to the last detail. When asked at a big interview where she sees herself in five years she knows exactly where she’ll be and who she’ll be with. Her boyfriend, David, proposes to her that same day and seems to confirm her answer but when she has a strange, prophetic dream that night taking place five years later she is living in a completely different apartment with a completely different man. She brushes it off as just an odd dream and carries on with her life until 4 1/2 years later she meets the man from her dream and starts to worry it could come true.

I’ve never read anything by Rebecca Serle before but the premise for this intrigued me and it’s New York setting swung it for me. This was a big departure from the types of book I normally read but I like to try new things and went into it with an open mind.

I’m going to start with the good points. I loved reading about New York and being reminded of places I’ve seen. I liked that there is a fairly big twist that means this book doesn’t go where you think it will at all and I enjoyed the way it did go, probably more than I would have had it gone down the more predictable route. Obviously I don’t want to give anything away so it’s difficult to say more.

Sadly, I am a reader who likes good characterisation and I did not find that here. A lot of the characters felt fairly one dimensional and the first person narrative made it difficult to really get a good handle on anyone apart from Dannie. At times I felt like it was the second book in a series and I was missing vital information about the characters that I would know if I had read the first book. The lack of background then made it difficult for me to care about the characters and get too invested in the story.

The plot wasn’t like any other books I’d read and I did like that it was a lot different from what I was expecting. The surprise part was well executed and I hope when the book comes out and others start to read it that this part isn’t spoiled as I think that would ruin the enjoyment of the book.

Unfortunately Serle’s writing style wasn’t for me. The characters weren’t strong enough and the writing was a bit all over the place. I can’t say that I would read any more of her books.

This had me hooked from the first chapter and I just wanted to find out more !! without spoiling it for anyone all the way through I thought I knew what was going to happen but I didn't !! ..... Dannie and David are engaged and seemingly happy with their life and how it is going until something happens to Dannie where she wakes up in a different apartment with a different man in 5 years time. She falls back to sleep after her weird glimpse into the future and wakes up back with David and then has to wait for 5 years to see what it meant.
I found this book to be a lovely read and perfect to switch off to and very quick to read.

Dannie Kohan nails the interview that will lead to the job she has always wanted and she accepts her boyfriend David's proposal. After a long day, she arrives back home and falls asleep, knowing she's on track to accomplish her five-year plan. Then she wakes up. In a different apartment, with a different engagement ring on her finger, next to a different man. And it's 2025. Five years later. One very intense and confusing hour later, she falls back asleep and wakes up back in 2020. Everything is back to normal. Dannie can't shake the feeling that this was more than just a dream, but she doesn't believe in visions. So she ignores what happened. She goes back to living her carefully planned-out life, until four-and-a-half years later, when she meets the man from her vision.

This book is described as romance by some reviewers, but it's not. It's a love story about friendship, something we don't see nearly enough of in books. Yes, Dannie gets engaged to her boyfriend and we get to see her in her relationship with David. The main focus of the story, however, is Dannie's friendship with Bella.

This was a very beautiful, heartbreaking read. I laughed a few times, but I spent the final chapters crying. Just about halfway through, you get hit with a major twist that resonates throughout the rest of the book, and it absolutely destroyed me. I was sobbing by the end, which never ever happens. I could see where the story was going to go, but I kept reading in the hope of being proven wrong.

I could potentially see people being upset with how this story ends, especially if they go in expecting some epic romance. But for me, it was just a perfect celebration of love and friendship.

This really is an intelligent heartbreakingly wonderful ugly-sobbing tale of love and, above all, friendship. I think there’s been a bit of a gap in the market for a couple of years for a read like this so a really solid commercial opportunity.

Corporate lawyer Dannie is engaged to David, her solid partner for over 5 years. But a premonition / dream sees her with another man.... which unsettles her.... not least when she meets him a few years later as the new boyfriend of her best friend Bella.....

Relationships and love are at the heart of this novel...but the standout is the friendship between Dannie and Bella.

Loved this book. I have never read anything quite like it before. Unusual story and the ending was not what I expected it all. So sad but an excellent read.

THIS IS BRILLIANT.
Such a clever, inventive and novel idea for a story. The characters are excellent, their story is gripping and I loved every single page.
I cried quite a lot reading this - something just tugged at my heartstrings the whole time!
Destined to be a bestseller next year.
The perfect love story.

I enjoyed this charming romance. It had enough of a twist to take it beyond your typical New York girl seeking love and I found the characters engaging. I didn't see the end coming at all and loved the bitter sweetness of it. Very much enjoyed - thank you.