In Five Years

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Call Number: Fiction / Serle, Rebecca, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Serle, Rebecca
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Serle, Rebecca	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Serle, Rebecca	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Serle, Rebecca	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Serle, Rebecca	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Serle, Rebecca	4-week checkout	Due 05-22-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Serle, Rebecca	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024

"A striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever"-- Provided by publisher.
"When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It's the same night--December 15--but 2025, five years in the future. After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can't shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn't the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind. That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision."--Amazon.

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Generic characters submitted by mowjac on May 5, 2021, 10:24am A well executed plot device raises this generic novel: what if you could go 5 years into the future in your life and see what happens? Dannie is an uninteresting character and I finished the book by skimming it. If you live in NYC there's lots of insider name dropping, which is not relevant to readers outside the boroughs.

Made for a movie submitted by rebecca.perreault on June 16, 2021, 3:02pm The Cons: This plot hits every Hallmark note as if it was predestined to be a screenplay. The characters and drama are generic and uninteresting. It's a magical realism book that tries to be both a love story and and a story of personal growth/self discovery, but never really wraps up either.
The Pros: However, I gave this book more stars because it is SMART - the book starts like it finishes. And emotionally it hits so hard I had to sit in silence for a few minutes. Once I finished the book, I wasn't angry that the main character didn't truly transform - it felt grounded back to ugly reality instead of a true, expected Hallmark ending.

Wow. submitted by smgop on July 14, 2021, 2:35pm This book was shocking with a twisty plot - that really packs a punch (however, it ends abruptly with fragments remaining.)

Absurdly relatable submitted by robinpollak on July 16, 2021, 9:17pm The characters in this book feel utterly knowable and relatable. This is the first book I’ve truly binged in a long time because I felt invested in the outcomes for the characters. The main plot device of Dannie’s vision of the future drives strong curiosity about how it will all play out.

Meh submitted by leahrosa on November 18, 2022, 9:42am I feel like this could make a good run-of-the-mill movie. The characters were contrived and lacked any real depth. The ending rushed to tie everything up so that it makes sense. I probably won't read anything else from this author again.

Not What It Seemed submitted by vtabor on July 18, 2023, 9:20pm On paper this sounded like a perfect read for me. The synopsis sounds like everything I like in a book. Once the twist appeared, I felt differently. I didn’t agree with the author using that to get to the end result. In the end, I now realize that the book is supposed to be about something different than alluded to, and the end goal was actually not what was expected. Still though, I felt really misled by the synopsis.