This was a nice yarn. It wasn't perfect, but I wasn't expecting the world.

It may be that I lack the minds eye, but I fail to draw much of a larger meaning or thematic apperception from this book outside of "don't kill yourself! You only get one life"! And I feel like Eminem's classic banger "Lose Yourself" did a better job of driving that point home.

I will say that as a kid, I loved Sliding Doors. I watched that movie over and over, fascinated endlessly by the concept of what's largely just The Butterfly Effect. That might be why I had such a good time slipping in and out of the different realities that Nora found. Its fun to live, for just a moment, in the eternal playground of your childhood potential.

Each reality was a little bit cartoonish, admittedly - most aren't far off the life lesson and general plot trajectory of an episode of The Fairly Odd Parents. But that didn't mean it wasn't FUN. And isn't that all we really need from a book like this?