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    In Five Years: A Novel
    In Five Years: A Novel
    In Five Years: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    In Five Years: A Novel

    Written by Rebecca Serle

    Narrated by Megan Hilty

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    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick

    “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

    ​Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

    Where do you see yourself in five years?

    Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers.

    She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content.

    But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 10, 2020
    ISBN9781797103204
    Author

    Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com.

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    • 5/5
      This book was really good. It’s the type of book you can’t see what’s going to happen halfway in, and I really appreciated that!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Short and sweet touching story. This was an easy read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      This was the worst book I have read "In five years."

      Well, maybe not the worst, but the competition is intense.
      Set in modern New York, the stereotype of the young and ambitious female law professional who wants to have it all constitutes the main character. There is the fiancee, the ever postponed wedding, and the cliche unnamed commitment doubts; there is the female BFF, there is the cardboard psychotherapist.
      The book does not tell us what happens during the five years: instead, we are at the beginning of the story, when the character has her paranormal vision into the future and then, we slide almost five years into the future, to find out the twists of the story and how, actually, the circumstances of her vision were not the ones that she thought they were.
      That play with the circumstances is the only reason why I gave this book 2 out of 5 stars; to appreciate the author's effort of thinking about alternative explanations.
      But the story remains blunt and superficial; the relationships have no depth; the resorts of the characters seem random.

      I would not recommend this book, not in five years...

      [sorry, the wordplay was too good, not to use it twice]

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Although not as “life changing” and “tear worthy” as the other reviews say, it’s worth reading. It’s honestly not extremely interesting, just sad. There’s really no moral of the story, just to live in the present and not try to control the future. It definitely doesn’t live up to the expectations I had.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved this book. So beautifully written and the characters were brought alive by the stunning narration, so much so that I found myself not wanting it to end. At times it was both heartbreaking and heartwarming, not the predictable "happy ending", but something much more original. If you are looking for predictable this isn't for you, but if you are looking for something that takes you on a journey, this is a beautiful and evocative story. Truly outstanding and one of the best books I've read/listened to.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      A slice of life that should be left to the rats.

      Not a view into a parallel universe, but a view into the life the narrator wishes she had; that of her weak, “warm,” sentimental, beautiful but ultimately sickly friend’s silver spoon life. And we watch her twist herself into knots pretending to try not to benefit from her best friend’s loss(es). It’s a real trainwreck and I am ashamed of myself for finishing it.

      1 star for narration and the hope it would turn around.

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    • 2/5
      Listened to this because it was well hyped and a book club recommendation, but really regret wasting my time. This was SO BORING. I forced myself to keep going and ended up googling the ending with an hour or so left.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      If you want to feel bad at the end,read the book.It begins exciting and ends dramatic.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I liked it until the end. I thought she ended up with Aaron (Greg) not that they just did it and that was it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      One of the best books ever - you’ll laugh, gasp, cry, many many times

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    • 4/5
      I really did enjoy this book. It was an easy audiobook to listen to & get in to! It was emotional & I was hooked early on. The ending was definitely a plot twist, it is easy to see why dannie did things the way she did. I liked it a lot & would recommend it!

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    • 1/5
      Disappointing. The plot is weak and the premise is just a teaser for you to get to the end in hopes of a redeeming end. It doesn't pay off. Glad it was short at least.

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    • 2/5
      The beginning was more promising and engaging than the whole piece. It’s pretty soapy, too banal at times, good for those having trouble sleeping

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Good ending and I liked the main character but I found the male characters to be a bit one-dimensional and can't imagine this book appealing to men.

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    • 4/5
      This was an interesting premise and unexpected love story. It was an engaging listen although it’s not a light and breezy read. I will warn readers there’s an extensive medical treatment section.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The narrator was so perfect for this book. Made it so much better

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I like the story, but didn’t like the ending, I wanted a romance. But overall it was a good , sad story about 2 best friends not a romance

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Nice, friendship story. Keep me interested until the end. Grieving can be show in so many different ways

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Very nice narrator. The story was not a romance one like I expected, but a story about real life and real friendship.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Not a very in-depth story, but well written. With beautiful discriptions of scenes and emotions. A love story of friendship and hopes for the future. Easy to listen too.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I mean, I wanted a very light read and it didn’t disappoint in that “light read” factor. Everything else felt stale, too predictable. The characters are annoyingly perfect and even their faults, are portrayed to make them even more perfect. Nothing really to say, it’s a fun little New York/Nora Ephon/90sRomComs type of book, recommended for a quick read/listen.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This was such a wonderfully written, beautiful story of love, loss and friendship!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I wasn’t entirely gripped by this book. Based on the summary, I was expecting a light romantic read but it ended up being sadder.

      **SPOLER/TRIGGER WARNING** A main character is diagnosed with cancer which becomes the central plot point. It seems to me like this would be something important to include in the summary as a lot of people have personal experiences with cancer and might not want to read a book about someone’s loved one suffering through it. **

      The book is framed by this vision the main character sees of herself and another man, other than her fiancé. The resolution of this wasn’t as rewarding as I’d hoped it would be. It felt a little rushed. Early in the book I was really curious and excited about this aspect to the story but it felt like it got swept under the rug.

      Megan Hilty is a good narrator. The book is a love story about friendship, but that’s not what it’s described as and it felt like the plot got away from the concept which led to some tug of war with the story.

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    • 4/5
      I could not put this book down. It had me wondering through the entire book "how's this going to end??"

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    • 3/5
      It was something to listen to. Not bad, but not good. Predictable plot and unimaginative characters. It was hard to really like any one of the characters because they all seemed selfish and only motivated by their own self-indulgent impulses.

      I suppose one good thing was that I could predict the plot early on and I got to watch it unfold as I’d imagined it would.

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    • 3/5
      Not what I expected. Not a romantic book at all but a love story of friendship and Manhattan life then a hospital drama. Super non- relatable in my opinion. I was not feeling the writing style, the pace nor the narrator. I did like the end though. Avoiding the obvious.

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    • 1/5
      Spoiler ahead:










      The five years from now scenario Dannie saw in her dream, while it did not fully happen was just, so wrong. How could grief justify sleeping with your dead best friend’s fiancé? It was not grief, they kissed while Bella was alive. Dannie was taken away by her dream and Greg was taken away by I don’t know, lust? If Bella knew about the kiss, she would have been devastated. If the novel was truly a story about friendship, Dannie should have stopped herself and remained faithful to her friend all throughout.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      While the book drew my in initially, I felt like it lagged at times. I felt like the charters were never quite believable and the “twist” ending had me questioning Dannie and Greg’s feelings toward Bella.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It was not what I was expecting. Nevertheless, it was a good book!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A simple read with a lot of feeling. Great narrator!

      1 person found this helpful