Tag: infiveyears

Atria Books
Release Date: March 3, 2020
Genre: Women’s Fiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

This book was a perfect storm of a five star read for me. I picked it up on a bus ride home from New York City, not realizing that the entire story takes place there. With the lights of NYC literally fading in my rearview mirror, I could completely visualize the nonstop hustle Serle introduced through the main character Dannie, a corporate lawyer, and her fiancé, David. Their drive and passion for their careers reminded me so much of people in my own life, that I melted into the plot instantly.

Serle is a new author for me, although her previous book has been sitting on my shelf for months now. I will be reading it promptly. Her character descriptions were poignant, touching, believably flawed, and relatable. Dannie has her life planned out. She knows where she wants to be in five years, and she takes steps to get herself there every single day. On the night of her engagement, Dannie has a dream, vision, premonition, call it what you’d like, of her actual reality in five years time. It is nowhere near what she is striving for. Discomfited, she tries to shake it off and go about her life as usual. She takes a new job, she gets lunch with her flighty, ethereal best friend, Bella, and she thinks about her dream.

Rebecca Serle knows how to create characters that readers care about. The backstory of each person, and the sheer number of details that went into creating each of them is remarkable, and the way that they relate to each other is, simply put, wonderful. The setting was perfect for the narrative, something I don’t often consider while reading. New York City seemed to take on a life of its own, pulsing throughout the story, and carrying the characters along the never-slowing whirlwind of life.

I could not have guessed where the narrative was going. My heart was wrenched in a million different directions as I read, and emotions were rampant. I read this in one day, and although I received an advanced eGalley on NetGalley from Atria Books in exchange for an honest review, I fully expect to purchase the finished novel once it is published.

My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
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