Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the finished copy of Expiration Dates in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC
Published: March 19, 2024
Summary:
Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.
From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes the romance that will define a generation.
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 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.
My thoughts:
This is the fourth book I’ve read by Rebecca Serle and I just love the stories she writes. Once again she writes a story that I was not expecting but one that I loved just the same.
I love how the books this author writes are always so endearing and this one is just that. It’s heartbreaking yet also inspiring and you can’t help but be pulled into Daphne’s story and want to know more about these letters she gets. We’ve all been there before, waiting to see if the right thing or a better opportunity will come along, and this book so perfectly encompasses that and more. I loved going along with Daphne on this journey, with the story moving effortlessly back and forth in time, to fill us in on some of Daphne’s previous relationships and see the little lessons about life, love, and even herself, she learned from each one.
This book is easily one that can be read in a matter of hours. It’s short and engaging and my only complaint is that I actually wanted more of it!
Audio thoughts:
I just love listening to Rebecca Serle’s books on audio – they translate so well. And the narrator could not have been more perfect – Julia Whelan nailed this one! She really brought this book to life with her narration and I just loved the personality she gave Daphne. Definitely worth a listen if you enjoy audiobooks.
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