The Midnight Library

I feel like I say this with so many books, but I was incredibly resistant to start reading this book. I have read another one of his books and was not exactly a fan and only picked this one up because it fit the prompt for book club. This one, however, was a little closer to what I had expected than the last one.

The ending was utterly predictable and the main character wasn't entirely distasteful, which sets it above his last novel I read. I don't think the cure for depression and suicidal thoughts is working through a Book of Regrets or living endless possibities. I understand the author is pulling from their own experiences but the delivery just made this all fall very flat for me.

The premise, however.... I loved. To go into a library full of potential lives you could be living? Exploring the little changes that can set up cataclysmic changes to our own perceptions and reality? This is fantastic. Blake Crouch did it so well. I had really hoped that this one would be just as good.