The Midnight Library

This book was totally fine. I'm a sucker for this kind of premise, but the plotting feels like the very first ideas for story beats that you would obviously come up with given such a premise. It's not bad, it's just not very exciting and a bit too cute/precious.

It was still engaging enough though, the writing mostly flows well and is easy to read, and the audiobook is well narrated by the actress Carey Mulligan. It was a good breezy read between other books, even if it feels a bit like a flash-in-the-pan beach-book-club pick (nothing wrong with that though I guess, I really liked The Help too).

** Mild Spoilers Below **

The decision to jump into a consciousness without any related memories and having to make sense of your new reality on the fly is fun... the first couple times. It feels like a huge portion of the book is just the main character trying to reasonably pass as her new self and it just isn't that interesting a lot of the time and is just a predictable way to hit us with a shocking revelation. However I did like how it was used in the conversation with Molly.