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Carregando... In Five Years (edição: 2020)de Rebecca Serle (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. What would you do if you were given a glimpse of your life 5 years from now, and it's nothing you expect it to be? Danni is an extreme "A type" most people will have trouble connecting to, a person who lives by numbers and plans everything to a minute. She's best friends with Bella, her free-spirited friend who is her proverbial opposite. The depiction of their friendship is the only redeeming quality of this book. I read this in one sitting, so I can't say this was entirely poorly written. However, I had major issues with this book. I found these two main characters difficult to relate to and pretty shallow for the most part. There is also annoyingly too much brand name-dropping in this book for my taste, listing all the fancy restaurants, hotels etc. But, that's forgivable. Another, more serious critique is that the "future" scene is misleading and honestly - unbelievable. I don't want to get into details without spoiling this, but the story never came together for me with that ending. It just didn't make any sense. 2.5 stars This is an incredible story and I can't believe I just wrote that. Chapter One reaction: "Nothing about this lifestyle, writing style, main character, plot, anything, speaks to me. At. All." Chapter Two reaction: "Foul language is dumb and unnecessary. It always makes someone sound uneducated and ignorant. People who live together for two years and say they're soul mates but don't respect one another enough to marry are really difficult to take seriously." Chapter four reaction: "Ugh. I DON'T want to read this...but I spent money and so I feel obligated. Chapter six reaction: "Great writer. Too bad it's wasted on such a frivolous piece of fluff." Few chapters later but still not 'getting it': "I'm drawn into the story now that there actually is one...but I'm frustrated and a bit sickened that it looks like the author is using a serious issue to "easily" rid the scene of people and ideas who are precious. Maybe she's just immature and naive." Chapter 35 reaction: "I can't tell if I'm mad that getting rid of "that precious thing" would be so convenient to how I think this story is going to go and therefore the author is a jerk; or if it's because she hasn't done it yet and I'm mad at myself for wanting it to happen so the story will go the 'romantic' way I want it to." End of book reaction: "Oh my. Setting aside the many moral issues I have with all that went on in this book, this is one of the most beautiful things I've read lately. I fought back tears more than once. In fact, if I wasn't pushing back so hard against so much of the moral issues, I think this story would have consumed me for a bit. "Love doesn't require a future." That quote came up several times throughout and most of the time I'd think, "Yeah, so just sleep with whoever, you know, because who cares about the future." But no. That's not the idea. The idea is, take a risk. Be vulnerable. Love now. Don't try to make sure it's all gonna pan out before you jump in. Don't waste time. I have one friend that is the Bella to my Dannie. Her name is Meagan and she is absolutely Bella in all the ways. I'm not so much a Dannie---maybe the same personality in a different kind of lifestyle package. I love her deeply like Dannie and Bella loved one another. As their last few chapters played out, I could imagine Meagan and I in every single one. It's a deep in the gut love---different than romance and different than motherhood or the love one has for parents and other family. I don't know how to explain it but it's raw and so precious. It's a beautiful thing to have one friend like that---but I think one is enough for anybody. I'm glad I read this book. I'm glad I started out forgetting that not everyone lives under my set of morals and I'm glad I was reminded that doesn't keep them from experiencing all the same human emotions that I do. The lessons this story had for me will not, I hope, be quickly forgotten. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: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." â??Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists â??Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Dayâ??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 friendâ??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 midnightâ??but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one yo Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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In In Five Years, writer Rebecca Serle creates a maze of love, fate and controlled destiny. The story follows Dannie Kohan, a measured and driven young attorney in New York City, who gets engaged to her longtime boyfriend on the same night she has a startling glimpse of herself five years in the future. In this vision, she discovers her carefully calculated life has gone awry. Her future self is not only engaged to someone else but she seems to be living another life entirely; a life that has completely deviated from the future she has meticulously planned her entire adulthood.
The novel's dual timelines create a captivating tapestry, weaving a story that keeps readers eagerly turning pages until every piece falls into place. This structure keeps the reader engaged, as they are constantly trying to piece together the puzzle of Dannie's life and how she arrived at her future. Serle's writing is engaging and easy to follow, and she creates characters that are relatable and well-developed.
Highly recommended as one of the most unique books I have read in recent memory. In Five Years explores an unexpected range of emotions with lots of unexpected twists and turns. The character connection created by Serle is effortless. This enjoyable and thought-provoking novel is the perfect light read for fans of chicklit and magical realism. ( )