Where do you see yourself in five years?
Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan has known her answer since she was able to understand the question. On the day she nails the most important interview of her career and gets engaged to her ideal man, she’s well on the way to achieving her goals.
But that night when Dannie falls asleep she awakens in a different apartment with a very different man. Catching sight of the news on the television, she sees it is the same date but 2025 - five years in the future!
She tells herself it was just a dream and is determined to ignore the experience. That is until 4 and a half years later, a strange twist of events has her bumping into the man from her dreams…
When I requested this title on NetGalley I wasn’t sure whether it was going to be for me. It seemed I would have to stretch my imagination into the realms of impossibility to get on board, but it had captured my attention enough to go ahead.
Two days after I finished the book, I sit here trying to write my review and still have absolutely no idea where to begin. Firstly, I got through it pretty quick, due for the most part to the shortness of chapters and the fact it is only 272 pages long. I was quietly intrigued and at no point did I want to put the book down, but I never felt truly connected to the story.
My main issue was that the characters seemed a little one dimensional, especially Dannie. As the main protagonist I felt she needed a little more depth for me to be able to identify and empathise with her.
On the other hand, there are some shocking and very sad moments in this book. Ones that I found did reach me emotionally, and shows that the bond of friendship is a love like no other.
I can see from other reader’s reviews that the overall feeling towards this book is mixed, and I can see why. Even as I come to the end of this review I am still torn, and I find myself thinking there just wasn’t time to love it. With another 150 pages this book could have been a winner for 2020.
* Thanks to Quercus Books, via NetGalley, for this ARC *
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