In Five Years - Rebecca Serle

Genre: Romance

Release Date: 10th March 2020

Where will you be in five years? Dannie knows.

Dannie has it all figured out - she's going to get engaged to her amazing boyfriend David, she's going to help her best friend Bella, and she's going to keep climbing the career ladder as a sucessful lawyer. It's all going to plan. Until one day, Dannie wakes up from a dream that was so vividly real that she couldn't shake it. It was exactly five years from today, and she was in a new apartment, kissing a beautiful man that she'd never met before.

That is, until he shows up with Bella, a very real person.

But this isn't the story you're expecting it to be.

With such vibrant characters and an in-depth world, this book completely sucked me in. Dealing with the pitfalls of falling in and out of love, illness, friendships and expectations, this story was so much more than the pretty cover made me think it could be. It frames love in so many different forms and makes you start to question the multitude of love you've experienced in your life.

This book had some of the sweetest interactions between friends, tied with some of the most heartbreaking. And yes, while this book definitely had me tearing up slightly in places, it was so life-affirming and uplifting at the same time.

This is a love story not like the others.

In five years is nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 for Romance. You can vote via Goodreads.com

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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