Sarah T's Reviews > In Twenty Years

2.5 stars (struggled to decide between 2 and 3).

Setting aside the improbability that in a group of six college friends one would become a major rock star, one the CEO of her own company with a regular media presence and one a top plastic surgeon for a minute...

...Nope, can't quite do it. The group at the centre of this book have all had such unlikely trajectories (of the other three, one is former trailer trash who has married a blue blood and one is dead which just leaves ONE character whose life seems vaguely normal) that it is hard to buy in to the novel. The fact that the characters themselves aren't particularly likeable either doesn't help - although I appreciated the fact that fame and fortune wasn't portrayed in a particularly positive light.

For all that, this was perfectly readable, well written for the most part and with a nice optimistic central premise about letting go of youthful mistakes and moving forward with adult life.