I really enjoyed this book ..... and couldn't predict the ending. Couldn't help imagining myself in the same scenario: what choices would I make? And how valid is the choice without the proper context? Read this book, and think about those paths not taken, those paths we might take, and those paths we wouldn't have taken if we'd known the whole story.

In Five Years was an interesting and emotional read. It had a lead woman character unlike most that star in the books I read. She's very strong, organized, driven by numbers, logic, and goals. Her life is outlined and makes sense on paper. Her best friend is so the opposite. I don't want to give anything away but this took me on a direction I didn't see coming. I cried, I was surprised, I was invested. I maybe wouldn't categorize it as a romance, but there is definitely love.

Five. The number of stars I give this book.

I devoured this book. Kept turning pages. Read while doing my pre-workout stretches, read while I brushed, while I waited for water to boil, while I waited for a meeting to start.

This story was refreshing. Heartbreaking and raw and oh so good. I couldn’t help but think of Love Story by Erich Segal while I read this book. The pace, the tone, the mood, all made me think of Love Story, and then of course the big twist.

Though I thought this was a Romance Read when I started reading, after having read it, I also think it’s just as much Women’s fiction and New Adult fiction.

I highly recommend it.

Thank you NetGalley and Atria books for this ARC.

5/5

OMG I have only cried at one or two books in my life but this book made me want to just lay in the couch and sob my eyes out, then call my best friend and tell her how much I love her and cherish her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't do all of that though because I was at work when I finished this book. At first I thought this book is very similar to Josie Silver's One Day in December and I almost put it down without finishing but boy was I wrong!!!!!!!! This is an amazing story of true loves and " the one" but not the one you think. It is about friendship and when you find "your person". If you've found them already you know what I'm talking about. Not gonna tell ya what it's about because you can read the sypnosis like I did lol. Trust me though you will love this book!!!!!! Thank you to Netgalley and Atria for my honest review

I absolutely adored this book. This is more then just a love story. It’s a novel that is heartwarming and so hard to put down. This was very well written and kept me hooked the whole time.

This is a book that's hard to describe to friends. It one where you say " just read it, you'll see what i mean!" I enjoyed it. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher!

In Five Years follows Dannie, a twenty-something lawyer on the biggest day of her life she interviews for her dream job and her longtime boyfriend David proposes to her. But when she falls asleep and wakes up five years in the future with a different man. When she wakes up in the present she can’t seem to shake that future vision of her life, especially when she meets that man from her dreams four years later.

In Five Years comments on how life doesn’t always go the way you planned, but that’s often for the best. It plays on the favorite interview question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” recognizing that even the planning doesn’t mean the future will look the way you plan.

I enjoyed In Five Years. It was just the right length, it pulled my heartstrings, and it was not predictable. What I didn’t like about it was that it was not a romance, despite the setup at the beginning. But if you get past the fact that this is not a love story, you find a gorgeous story about friendship and learning accept changes to your life plan in order to find happiness.

In Five Years was the kind of book that snuck up on me in the best kind of way and overwhelmed me with its beautiful writing and storyline in a manner I did not expect. When Dannie somehow ends up five years in the future with a man who is definitely not her fiance, she doesn't think a ton of it - until back in present day, she meets her best friends new boyfriend - the man from the future.

IFY will unfold in a way that you will not expect (at least I definitely did not) and if you are anything like me, it will move you to tears and capture your heart entirely. It might only be January, but I've already found one of my favorites of 2020.

Oh, what a treat Rebecca Serle's imagination is! Like THE DINNER LIST, IN FIVE YEARS takes off in unexpected directions, delivering a novel rich in character, surprises, and lots of things to keep thinking about long after the final page. This is a read first and foremost about friendship--don't miss it!

This was a story about love and friendship. I was immediately hooked and couldn’t put it down. It will stick with me a long time.

Thank you Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of this book.

This book wasn’t what I was expecting- in the best way! I tore through it in a weekend. Dannie is a complete type A - perfectionist, wildly organized, anal - and her life is moving perfectly according to plan (handsome fiancé, partner track). Until one day she has a dream that puts her five years in the future, in an apartment she doesn’t recognize sleeping with a man she doesn’t know, and it freaks her out. She wakes back up in present time and lives her life unassumingly, meeting this mysterious man as the boyfriend of her best friend, Bella, 4.5 years later. Now the mystery is on to for Dannie to make sure her premonition never comes to fruition.

I thought this would be a cheeky love story, but it’s actually about friendship: how opposites attract, how the bond grows tighter with time, how friends become family, and how friends support each other until they physically can’t. Bella and Dannie’s bond is one that I initially overlooked as surface and silly, but by the end of the book I was seriously sobbing over their connection - it was build over time through memories but, more importantly, through their genuine interactions with each other: loving and annoyed and honest.

I loved that the book didn’t have a perfect ending — and really loved the full circle aspect of Dannie (slight spoiler) beginning to take Bella’s lighthearted nature to heart and applying it to her own life.

Thought this would be a fluffy read but it really hit me hard - grab some tissues. Such a good read, can’t wait for this to be published!

Danni has a 5 year plan and when her boyfriend David proposes it seems like everything is lining up. But when she has a vivid dream of a very different evening 5 years in the future she is filled with questions. Her life continues to follow her plan but a wedding date is never set and then her best friend Bella introduces her new boyfriend Greg, the man from Danni's dream. What is happening? A story of friendship, and love, and the realization that life has its own 5 year plan. A story I could not put down.

Bianca contributed this review to Really Into This

Special thanks to Atria for providing our copy of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle in exchange for an honest & fair review.

Have you ever had a dream about the future? Was it so real you couldn’t shake it? That’s what happens to Danielle Kohan. Finding herself in a different apartment, with a different man, wearing a different engagement ring… and it’s 2025. Who is this handsome stranger, and will they meet in real life? Once Dannie wakes from this hour in the future, she’s changed.

OPPOSITES ATTRACT
Danielle Kohan has a plan. A Type-A lawyer, she’s got her life mapped out. Law school? Check. Clerkship? Check. Interview for her dream job? Check. Dannie’s got it all, including the handsome boyfriend who is ready to propose. All that remains is to plan a wedding and sail into the predictable sunset.

Bella is Dannie’s best friend and complete opposite – a whimsical bohemian. She’s known for falling in and out of love quickly, jetting off to Paris or Morocco for a week. Creative to the core, Bella is the happiest painting, writing, or managing her art gallery.

FIVE YEARS PASS
Dannie’s never told anyone other than a therapist about that dream. Four-and-a-half years have passed since Dannie and David got engaged. But they still haven’t tied the knot. Career-driven, there’s always been an opportunity (or an excuse?) not to get married. For someone who plans life by the numbers, this isn’t expected.

Meeting friends for dinner in Manhattan, she walks up to the restaurant. There. He. Is.

She knows his name, she can envision his apartment. As the story unfolds, so does the connection between the two of them. Life has a funny way of intertwining people in joy and sorrow.

THE VERDICT
I am really into this book! In Five Years by Rebecca Serle is a reminder that life is unpredictable. A smart, raw story of friendship and heartbreak. This book came along at the perfect time for me – I see parts of myself in both Dannie and Bella. But more than that, In Five Years struck a chord as an uncanny amalgamation of my loved ones, facing the same challenges as the characters in this book. If you were a fan of A Walk to Remember or Me Before You, you’ll love this novel.

I wanted to love this book. I thought that Dannie was going to go back and forth between 2020 and 2025 to figure out how she didn’t end up with David. But it was just ridiculous. She rushes to set a wedding date with her fiancé (after being engaged for 4+ years) because she doesn’t want her premonition to come true? It’s nonsense, her poor best friend Bella dies and Dannie sleeps with Bella’s fiancé five seconds later- After spending the whole novel talking about how much she loves Bella and they’ve been best friends for 20 years. Some friend.

I enjoyed The Dinner List, but In Five Years took my love of Rebecca Serle to the next level. This is ultimately a book about love - the love of friends, the love of relationships, the love of family. This tender story is infused with Serle's trademark magical realism. When Dannie wakes up in the year 2025 with a man she's never met before, her life is thrown upside down. What happens from there is funny and sad and heartbreaking and ultimately life affirming.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

I loved this story! I can honestly say I was laughing, definitely sobbing and loving these people who for a day completely took over my life!
I read this book in one day!
Dannie is a big time lawyer who has her life planned out and pretty much stays the course. Her very best friend since childhood, Bella is the exact opposite. She lives "in the moment". She is an artist who travels and enjoys living on the edge.
Until..... she can't anymore.
Bella needs to figure out how to help Dannie sort her life, while Dannie is trying to figure out how to help Bella as her life becomes complicated.
This is a novel about friendship, love and heartache.
There is a definite Tissue Alert!
Excellent and well written love story!
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This book goes every which way but the expected. I made continuous unsuccessful attempts to figure out how the characters would get from point A to point B, five years from the start of events. The first fifth and the last fifth of the book were a fast paced, enjoyable read. The middle, however, meanders. I kept wondering when we’d get to the “good stuff,” not just our characters’ day-to-day. In looking back on the story, I realize that the truly good stuff, as per usual in life, most often takes its time. The same applies here. The “good stuff” in this instance? It’s not the relationship I expected to unfold. And it’s those expectations that have let me down. Serle’s writing, as always, is good, and at times beautifully quotable; but the set-up doesn’t pay off, at least not for me. I thought I’d signed up for something truly magical and romantic, and walked away with nearly the opposite. I feel there was so much potential (magic) and (romantic) possibility for it to have turned so heavy. However disappointed I may be that my expectations did not match reality, the story itself is truly unique. I’d recommend it to anyone on that point alone. And I do look forward to that which Serle writes next; no one drops pop culture references quite like she does.

This is a love story, but not he kind you expect. There are several unexpected turns the story takes. Read it. You’ll love it.

Dannie, a driven, ambitious NYC lawyer catches a glimpse of her life in 5 years, a picture that is so drastically different from her current life that she thinks it might be a hallucination.
Familiar character types populate this novel of enviable friendship, realizing one's life's priorities, and being able to recognize the kind of all-encompassing love that rom-coms dream of. It's approachable, conversational, and a quick read, though not devoid of heartwrenching, heartbreaking moments.
This book is perfect for those who liked P.S. I Love You because of the longlasting friendships and heartbreak and Maybe in Another Life because of the sliding-doors, alternate reality/relationships plot.

Where do you see yourself in five years? What if you had your life mapped out, but then you had a very specific vision? One that challenged everything you believed about your current life trajectory. How would you react, what would you do? That is the problem facing Dannie, the main character in this book. On the night that her perfect boyfriend proposes after she has nailed the interview for her dream job, she falls asleep and has an experience five years in the future - with a man that is not her fiance. I am not normally a fan of romantic stories, but this is so much more than that. It is the story of a woman discovering exactly who she is and what she wants. Very satisfying.