**What’s up Wednesday** {9.25.2024}

I read Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years, during Covid shutdown, and I loved it!! I have also read a few of her recent novels, like One Italian Summer and enjoyed them as well. I was excited to jump into her latest novel, Expiration Dates. I felt like the first half of the book was weird. It was really hard for me to get into. I was trying to figure things out, and I was clueless about what the problem was. However, once the main character, Daphne, shared her secret, I flew threw the book and very much enjoyed it! So, my tip is don’t give up on it, it gets so much better! What did you guys think? 

Here’s the synopsis. 

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. 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. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there’s only a name: Jake.

But as Jake and Daphne’s story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper’s prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn’t, information that—if he found out—would break his heart.

“Daphne’s sometimes heart-wrenching, often heartwarming search for meaningful relationships, both romantic and platonic, is sure to inspire” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new and longtime fans of Rebecca Serle.

 Expiration Dates