The Midnight Library

Meh.

I never really got a sense of what Nora wanted out of life. The ending is very much, Look at all the potential my life has, I just couldn't see it! Which was annoying and trite, because Nora is portrayed as having depression, which is an illness, and you don't just “get over” being depressed because you no longer have regrets. That's not how brain chemicals work.

I don't know. I don't get why this book is so popular. It felt cliche, predictable. I didn't hate it, nor did I like it. The prose was fine, the reading experience pleasant enough, I guess. This has the feel of a book that I will forget immediately.

I did wonder if Nora screwed up her brother's happily ever after in her root life by knowing too much about his husband, and pushing him so heartily toward that relationship because she knew he was happy in other versions of HER life.