Like the amount of potential lives available to Nora, the book had infinite possibilities in terms of what lives could be chosen and described, how Nora entered and lived lives that weren’t technically hers, and how this would change her as a character.īut I needn’t worry how Haig would make this happen because he found a way (like always), and I absolutely loved journeying with Nora as she figured out what she wanted from life and what she needed to be happy. There were so many directions this novel could have taken. I felt completely entranced by the world Haig had created and I honestly couldn’t put it down. I absolutely loved this book – from the beautiful cover, to the world created, to the final moments of the story. One by one, she enters these lives, in an attempt to find her ‘perfect life’, in an attempt to really live. When Nora decides to end her life, she finds herself in this library, full of books of lives she could have had if only she’d made a different decision. The Midnight Library is a place between life and death. “Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.” It had a lot to say and it said it beautifully. Where do I even start? This book was brilliant, inspiring, heart-warming, emotional, interesting and, most of all, important.
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