This is my First Adult Matt Haig Book, and I must admit that I have always been daunted by this book and I have no idea why. I decided to pick the Audiobook and was reading alongside and this created a lovely reading experience especially for a book that is all about choices, regrets, and embracing life and leave you as the reader questioning your own choices. 

 

Nora Seed is having a really bad day. She is mugged, loses her job, blamed for other’s people’s failures, and her cat is run over by a car. She is also seriously depressed. This day is one of many bad days that Nora has experienced over the last decade of her life. She can’t take life anymore and attempts suicide. Nora wakes up to discover that she is in the space between life and death known as The Midnight Library. Here, Nora is given the opportunity to take the paths she didn’t choose and undo her regrets. She travels into the multiverse, getting to experience her other lives. 

 

Nora’s character felt like a real person making real decisions. I could feel of her emotions from both the dark side and the life side. She is such a fragile, desperate, adventurous person who is not scared by anything. I love how Haig has woven in magic, fantasy alongside Quantum physics, literature, and philosophy to make a captivating read. 

 

This is such an emotional and powerful read. Nora is a character who is fragile and in a desperate state on mind that she decided to take her own life, but this is such a book that offers love, warmth and healing. Its inspired me to stop regretting things and embrace the here and now a little more.