baronessekat | 2021 Reading Challenge: A book about do-overs or fresh starts

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Nora is having a hard day. Lost her jobs (both) and her cat died. She looks at her life and sees herself estranged from her brother (her only living relative), her BFF is half way around the world living her best life, and she recently broke up with her boyfriend. What's there to live for?

So she ODs on prescription anti-depressants in an attempt to end her lift.

She wakes up in the Midnight Library. A library where she gets to explore the lives that "could have been". If she had made just a slight change in a choice she made, how would her lift be different? If she finds one that she well and truly wants she can stay. The catch - she is dropped into that life at the exact same date and time as she was escaping - so if she made a choice when she was a teenager - she's dropped into that life at the age of 35 and has to figure the world out, who she is, who she is with, what does she do.

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I found this book eh. The big thing was that Carrie Mulligan was the reader - and if her on screen acting is anything like the narration she did, she totally deserved the Oscar Nomination.

My issue was the actual lives Nora relived. Where she found happiness felt kinda preachy to me.

However, I will say that the prose was lovely. The vignettes on their own were good. I just did not like the OVERALL all that much. But your view may vary

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