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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

313 reviews

kat1105's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Cancer, Addiction, Drug abuse, Grief, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Vomit, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Abandonment

maddyredfield_'s review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Addiction, and Alcohol

tahdens's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 In a world where the multiverse and parallel timelines have become the new 'thing', The Midnight Library is about the middle of the pack. It was nice. As someone who identified strongly at one point in my life with 'beginning of the book' Nora, I do admit I had to restart a book a few times over the course of the last year.

The book didn't really hook me in until probably 60% through. About half of it I listened to with Carey Mulligan and her performance really helped me stick with it more than the content of the book itself, I think.

The ending was a little too cookie cutter. I mean, we all knew from the first page how it was going to end, right? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

rosegoldeen3's review

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really felt a lust for life after reading this. Truly. Thank you for writing this Matt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug abuse and Vomit

margaret_k30's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Self harm

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Terminal illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Alcoholism, and Stalking

hanamany's review

inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Alcohol, Vomit, and Alcoholism

brogancha's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, and Addiction

Minor: Vomit

melinum's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I wasn’t expecting to read a book I’d rate so highly after only getting through the first 30 pages. I loved the style, the narration, and the poignant way of diving into one life and zooming out of it. It reminded me of five people you meet in heaven. I love this concept and was positively surprised at how well this was done. 

That aside, there were many instances where I related strongly with Nora. “Expectations” being a particular passage inside the book that struck a chord with many, and I am no exception. Please go into this book with no expectations. I’ve picked it up solely because I saw a friend (hi, Léonie) reading it and decided to give it a try as well. I went into it blind, and that was the best choice I could’ve made in order to be able to appreciate the situations detailed inside the rather short chapters. (The short, yet meaningful chapters are the best that modern literature has to offer, lemme tell ya.) 

Anyways, 10/10 recommend! 

Heed the TW: suicide, hinted self-harm, mentioned sexual harrassment, toxic relationship, mentioned drug and alcohol abuse. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide

alpettit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wavered between 3/4 stars on this one. I’m sure the intent of the book was to tell us to appreciate what’s good in our lives and not focus on the bad, or “live life to the fullest” or some other trope; but mostly what I felt was sad even after the book ended with the main character wanting to live. It almost made me feel the opposite: that no matter what choices you make, you are always going to hurt someone and you are always going to experience pain. It was a fast read and each iteration of the character’s life was interesting, but it wasn’t inspiring or uplifting (for me) in the way that it was probably intended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Vomit

justsomeonesjourney's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Vomit, and Animal death