#BookReview – Expiration Dates by @RebeccaASerle (2024)

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Expiration Dates
By: Rebecca Serle
Kindle, 268 pages
Dates Read: 3/3/2024 – 3/9/2024
Category: Romance

From Amazon:

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation.

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.

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.

Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for.

I’ve been on a huge romance kick lately and this book did not disappoint! I loved the flashbacks as Daphne explains when she first started getting the slips of paper and talks about her previous relationships. The entire concept of this book was so interesting to me. Imagine entering into every relationship knowing exactly how much time you have with that person. Would you fully invest yourself into the relationship or would you find yourself detached all the time because you know when the relationship will end?

This book had quite a few twists and turns that kept it interesting and made me want to keep reading to find out what happens next. I had no clue how this book would end and it definitely packed a punch considering how short it is. I’m giving this book 5 stars based on the uniqueness of the plot as well as the multiple twists that it had.

The only negative thought that I had was that I wish that this book was longer so I could continue following Daphne’s adventures.

Expiration Dates, Rebecca Serle

Source: Goodreads

Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com.