Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle is a contemporary romance featuring magical realism (4/5 stars)

Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle is a contemporary romance featuring magical realism.

Daphne receives a slip of paper with a name and a length of time around the start of every one of her relationships. That is until one day when she receives a name, but no time.

The audiobook is narrated by Julia Whelan, and I think she did a phenomenal job. I really liked listening to Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez too, so she’s definitely joined my list of top tier audiobook narrators at this point.

I really enjoyed this book, and especially the author’s prose. I thought the plotting was pretty well done, though the pacing dragged a little about a third of the way in. We jump around between present time and past times around Daphne’s past relationships.

There were a few twists that I guessed ahead of time, but there was one that I really didn’t! I may be in the minority, but I liked the ending. But I do echo a statement I’ve seen around: we wanted more at the end. I don’t say this often, but I wanted this book to be longer.

I’m definitely going to check out other books by this author.

I received a copy of this book to review. Thank you to LibroFM and Simon Audio for the complimentary audio review copy. All opinions contained herein are my own.

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