Book Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 

Blurb:

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. 

My thoughts
5⭐

"Every life contains millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ, An irreversible  variation occurs which in turn leads to further variations. These books are portals to all the lives you could be living."

Simple put. I loved everything about this book 

This story had so much depth and meaning and will go down as the best book I have read in 2021 so far.

The story follows Nora Seed a young woman in her thirties who feels as if she has made all the wrong choices and let not only herself but everyone in her life down. having been a champion swimmer she let her father down by not pursuing it to the Olympics. She let her brother down by not continuing with their band and this has strained their relationship. After loosing her job, Nora thinks that she has nothing else to live for this is when she enters the midnight library. In this library each book opens to a world that she has wanted to live.

Will she find true happiness in the end??

In life very often we regret decisions we have made. I myself often wonder about certain paths that I have chosen especially in career, marriage. This story reminded me that the life we live now may not have been our first choice in how we wanted to live, but it is the life we are supposed to live.

I would highly recommend this book, I read it as an eBook but I will buy a physical copy for my collection