This review is real and may be triggering. Please do not read if you are sensitive to mental health triggers.

I have been anxiously awaiting this book from the library. It was a long 2 months waiting for it to be ready! I was slightly hesitant as I suffer from bi-polar 2 which means I get depressed a lot, and generally try to avoid books about mental health. Mainly because I have found people with mental health are negatively portrayed, and only the destructive side is shown. I didn’t believe that to be the case here.

If you have ever tried to commit suicide, you know that you desperately want to die, you would do anything to just disappear. We find that here with Nora. She feels everything is going wrong, and no one would miss her if she were gone, and people would be better off without her. As I’ve personally learned, and as did Nora, this is not the case.

After Nora takes the pills, she is transported to The Midnight Library. In this library she is faced with many stories, all different paths her life could have taken. Nora is free to visit as many of these lives as she wants, and if she finds one that she does not want to leave, she will forget the library and absolve that life. Nora learns that no other life is delivering what she is looking for and is awarded the opportunity to return to her original life. She awakes amidst her overdose and is thankfully able to receive the help she needs. We see the story tie things up nicely, and resolution is received.

This story was not difficult for me to read, rather it was eye opening and really made me reflect on my own life, and decisions that I have made. Go into this with a clear, open mind, and you will walk away with tons of insight.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. An amazing, well written journey of a book.