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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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This book caught my attention as it was rated the Best Fiction book by Good Reads in 2020. For me, the book has lived up to the hype and maybe even beyond. I would like to start the review with an excerpt of the book : She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers. This is the story of Nora Seed, 35-year-old, living in her hometown Bedford working at String theory, a local music store. As the story unfolds, we get to know that she has been a kind of wiz kid, excellent at many things like Swimming: She was the fastest swimmer in her metropolitan area with a path that could lead to representing her country in the Olympics Music: She was a lead songwriter and singer of a band called “The labyrinth’s” with her bother and a few others, with a record label offer So, what happened? Why is she trying to kill herself? This is where the author’s usage of phi...