Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle on March 19, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Women
Pages: 272
Format: ARC
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If you’ve read Serle’s In Five Years and One Italian Summer, you will know what to expect with this book. This was full of heart and emotion!
The premise of this one hooked me right away. Daphne Bell receives slips of paper every time she meets a new man with his name and a time frame on it. This is the exact amount of time she will be with the guy on the paper. We get to see glimpses of these relationships and how what happens in each one. This was so interesting to me. Would you change how you act if you knew you were only going to date someone for 2 weeks or 3 months? The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend.
Then one night, she gets set up on a blind date with Jake. When she gets this slip of paper she also gets a surprise. She gets to know Jake and starts to really like him and really wonders about the prediction of the paper. She still remains friends with Hugo and all her friends try to help her through this. There is also a bit of a twist thrown in to this one that I TOTALLY was NOT expecting that really tied things together so nicely.
This one had me feeling ALL the feels! I think I laughed and cried a few times during this one. This is signature Serle style with characters that you just love and want to root for. I loved the little twist that was over halfway through and it just tied everything together. I just think Serle is a genius putting together a plot and coming up with an ending that I would have NEVER guessed. Five stars!!
A special thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for sharing this heartfelt book’s digital reviewer copy with me in exchange for my honest thoughts.
Well that book took a turn that I was not expecting! I am actually not fully sure on how I feel about the outcome of this one. I enjoyed the magical realism of this one and there were some emotional and sweet moments that were cute, but not sure the chemistry felt right and the flow was also a bit slow for my taste. I would have to rate this one at 3.5/4 stars. I thought Jake was great. I really liked Hugo a lot too. It was Daphne that was…. I guess just fine. She didn’t resonate with me. I couldn’t connect with her. Overall, not my favorite read but there were things about it I did enjoy. A unique romance.