A special thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books, Simon & Schuster Canada, Simon & Schuster Audio, and Libro.fm for an ARC/audiobook listening copy in exchange for an honest review.The standard interview question: Where do you see yourself in five years? Overachiever and highly ambitious Dannie Cohan has prepared the perfect answer.
She's having the best day: she nails her job interview and her boyfriend, David, proposed! But when she wakes up, she is not in her apartment, she has a different ring on her finger, and she's beside a man who is not David. It is also five years in the future.
When Dannie wakes up again, she's back in 2020 and it is just before midnight. She is completely rattled and can't stop thinking about what just happened. Determined to put it past her, she doesn't even speak of it—not even to her best friend, Bella. That is until almost five years later when Dannie has a chance meeting with the very man from her astonishing vision that night.
A story of love, loyalty, friendship, and fate, In Five Years will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
Serle's latest work is an extraordinary novel whose plot revolves around the tried-and-true interview question. It is thought-provoking, heartbreaking, and smart. And not at all what I expected.
Dannie is forced to reevaluate her life even though her personality is to plan life right down to the minute. But Serle creates some remarkable twists that force her to acknowledge that you can't plan everything, and that life happens.
In Five Years is a beautiful, intricate, and layered work that is not a typical love story—it embraces all of the loves in our lives whether they are the loves you choose or the ones that you don't.
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REBECCA SERLE holds a MFA from the New School in NYC. She codeveloped the hit TV adaptation of her YA series Famous in Love, and is also the author of The Dinner List, and YA novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine.
Serle lives in New York and Los Angeles.
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