The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Meh…

Through most of the book, I felt I’d rate the book 2 1/2 stars. The storyline was there, and I thought it had potential, but it just didn’t catch my attention the way I thought. This book had a lot of hype, but I don’t feel it lived up to it in my opinion. I wasn’t left constantly wanting to turn pages and keep reading. There were a couple times I debated on even adding it to my “did not finish” stack of books.

Towards the middle of the book, I felt like things were more rushed. The author spent a lot of time focusing on different “lives” of Nora, but then sped through a whole bunch of lives in a very brief summary and the list was so mundane I almost lost complete interest. The last chunk of the book did regain my attention to a point and I felt there were enough life lessons and other things embedded in the final chapters that it bumped up to a 3 star read overall. Not anything too exciting, nor anything too boring. But if one is looking at which books on their “to be read” pile to read next, I would almost say this one might be worth skipping over.