Nora Seed has made the decision to end her life. But instead of dying, she finds herself in a library that is located between life and death. In the library, the shelves go on forever and every book contains a different version of Nora’s life that she could have lived. Nora has the ability to slip into each book, to live each life, and hopefully find one where she can be happy.
This book is filled with so many emotions. It’s about regret, sadness, and giving up. It’s about what if you made a different decision or took a different path. It’s about figuring out what matters. In a way, it reminded me of “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
If this book appeals to you because you like libraries, know that the library does not play a large part in the book. The space between life and death can be a library, a video store, an art gallery, a restaurant. For Nora, it manifests as a library where she converses with her old school librarian Mrs. Elm while she tries to find a life she wants to live.
If however, this book appeals to you because you like parallel universes, you will probably like this book. The book revolves around alternate realities, time travel, and the multiverse. Each time Nora picks a new book, she is dropped into an alternate life. Depending on where she is in the world, she could be sleeping, or just waking up, or ending the day. It was a bit funny as, each time she starts a new life, Nora is dropped in with no memory of her life up to that point so she frequently will google herself and check her social media accounts to look for clues.
Nora is very depressed at the beginning of the book. As she lives through all of her different lives, she slowly comes to appreciate her life. She takes a hard look at her regrets and opportunities that she may have passed up. What she finds is that different circumstances don’t always lead to better results and that maybe you can’t have a perfect life.
I liked this book a lot.
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I’m so happy you talked about how each life has a different type of library and it wasn’t a large portion of the book. I think I would have been disappointed but I’m thrilled that my “limbo” would probably be an art museum. I may need to add this one to my book challenge.
Thrilled you loved this book so much!
xo Alli | On the Trip Side
I really liked it! I think it is my first 5 star book this year.