This entire book is entirely not what I’m looking for. It has so much promise and potential, and I was ready to sob my heart out only to sadly, end up dry-eyed and uncaring of Nora and her story. But, their overall impact and depth are weakened by the story’s execution. I just wished this whole book was written differently. Nevertheless, some parts in The Midnight Library resonated with me. Moreover, there’s an abundance of clichés and repetition, making the entire book shallow and a chore to read. There’s no need for careful thinking or looking underneath the underneath. Everything profound in this book is as subtle as a wrecking ball in action. The messages of the story are laid out in the open. It also doesn’t help that there are no nuanced moments. A lot of the story is told and not shown-and that makes it clinical, makes it read more like a self-help book disguised as clumsy fiction instead of actual literary fiction. The main problem I have with The Midnight Library is the stilted, didactic and unemotional narrative. I never knew a book could be both profound (truthfully, it wasn’t that profound either because I’ve read the same notions in many other books before) and boring. Everyone around me has been raving about The Midnight Library for ages so I finally got around to reading it, and well, here comes the awkward review detailing why I don’t like the book.
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