Book Review: Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle

3.5⭐
Genre ~ women’s fiction
Setting ~ California
Publication date ~ March 19, 2024
Est page Count ~ 268 (39 chapters)
Audio length ~ 6 hours 54 minutes
Narrator ~ Julia Whelan
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ magical realism, short chapters, slow burn, very minimal steamage

My review:

Dahpne (33) takes us on her dating journey’s, whether they last 1 night, 3 weeks or 3 months, each one’s end time was already written in the stars, or on a postcard that is.

Even though she dates a lot it’s pretty light on the romance and more about her journey to find the one. The dates are more as a flashback and not as they’re happening, too. I don’t have any complaints about the characters as they’re all pretty likable.

Overall, it was fast paced, lighthearted in parts and heavier in others with a good amount of wit. I actually laughed quite a few times. I even shed a quick tear at the end when she was having a heart to heart with her father.

Little niggle ~ I could have went without the description of everyone’s outfits just about every time someone new came on page.

Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the info above for reference.

*Thanks to the author, Atria Books and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

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.

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