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A review by kristyncrory
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
1.0
I was so excited to read this book after hearing about it online and reading the description, but it was my first DNF in a long time.
Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance, but the message I was getting from it turned me away almost instantly.
This book gave the impression that suicide leads to a limbo in the afterlife where you get to redo your biggest regrets and create a better life for yourself to go back to. I just don’t think that’s the message the world needs right now, it’s romanticizing and glamorizing suicide.
Aside from that screaming message in the parts of the book I forced myself to read, it was overall just really empty of emotion and shallow. Maybe that was the point, maybe it wasn’t, but I can’t even say the terrible message was well-written.
I wish I had enjoyed it more, I’m disappointed.
Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance, but the message I was getting from it turned me away almost instantly.
This book gave the impression that suicide leads to a limbo in the afterlife where you get to redo your biggest regrets and create a better life for yourself to go back to. I just don’t think that’s the message the world needs right now, it’s romanticizing and glamorizing suicide.
Aside from that screaming message in the parts of the book I forced myself to read, it was overall just really empty of emotion and shallow. Maybe that was the point, maybe it wasn’t, but I can’t even say the terrible message was well-written.
I wish I had enjoyed it more, I’m disappointed.