The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

[Berls]

I feel like everyone needs to know before starting this book that the first 20% is VERY depressing. Matt Haig takes us to a very dark place where the main character is ready to end her life... so it's depressing. And then it gets really truly good. So don't give up on it too fast.

I really enjoyed going with Nora on her journey of self-discovery. She starts off in a truly dark place where she feels that her life is at an absolute dead end and thanks to the journey she finds life's potential. Along the way Nora learns so many valuable lessons, such as that we have to really live for ourselves not others, that sometimes that decision you regret wouldn't have been everything you dreamed it to be, that sometimes you just need to give it some time and things will look entirely different.

All these lessons are wrapped up in a really neat world of the Midnight Library - a library full of all the infinite different paths Nora's life could have taken with every single decision she could have made differently. Such a neat concept and really well executed.

I listened to The Midnight Library, narrated by Carey Mulligan. I'm pretty sure this is the first book I've read a book Carey has narrated but I would happily listen again. It was a solid performance and the characters were delivered really well. I listened comfortably at my normal 2x speed.