Matt Haig_78

'The Midnight Library' has a lot of passionate fans, and I can see why. Nora Seed tries to commit suicide and so arrives at the midnight library, offered the opportunity to re-write her life, erasing her regrets and living alternate editions of herself. Nora married, Nora the glaciologist, Nora the motivational speaker, Nora the rock star. It's a cool concept, for sure. What's maddening is that as she awakes in each new life, she's still her current self, invariably sabotaging each new reality through lack of context. She can't be a new Nora, only the old Nora faking it. Haig's heavy-handed moralising is evident from the beginning, and the ending is inevitable.