The Midnight Library

This was really just okay for me. I knew exactly what this book would be saying and what the quotes I was supposed to pull from it were going to be before I even opened it; that isn't necessarily a bad thing and I thought I might end up loving it anyway. However, the writing was really flat for me. It felt like it didn't have anything to it, and Nora as a character was such a blank canvas it made it hard to relate to her. I liked the general format of the story and it had some nice things to say, but I knew what every beat of the plot would be and exactly the message the book was trying to tell me, and it didn't do anything else to make it impress itself upon me in a super meaningful way. I understand why this book would mean a lot to people, but it just didn't emotionally affect me. I still had a good time reading it and it didn't do anything wrong, by any means. It just didn't do anything to impress me either.