In Five Years (#927), Rebecca Serle's latest novel, did not take me where I thought it would. Dannie Kohan, an ambitious lawyer, has had an amazing day; she knows she's aced the interview for her dream job with a high-powered firm of corporate attorneys and her boyfriend of two years has just proposed at the Rainbow Room. Back at their apartment, Dannie falls asleep. When she wakes, she's in a different apartment with a different man and a different engagement ring on her hand. As the news plays on the TV, she realizes that it's five years in the future, and it's not how she planned it!
When she reawakens, everything is back to normal. But what happened? Was it just a dream? Ever practical, Dannie tries to put the experience in the back of her mind and carry on with her carefully-crafted life plan. Until the day she meets the man in her vision four and a half years later... Nothing can ever really prepare you for the future.
This didn't turn out to be a conventional romance, although that would have been an easy way to go with this story. Instead, the author chooses to explore the strength of a life-long friendship and the bonds that connect us to a few special people in our lives, if we're lucky enough to have them.
It's a fast read, but a satisfying one. Make sure your box of tissues is nearby!
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