Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published Feb. 4, 2021 by Canongate Books Ltd..
Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?
God awful read.
The plot is over-explained and dumbed down through the dialogue to the point where it’s painful to read. The entire story could have been summarised in a self-help/suicide prevention pamphlet, which would have spared me from the incessant attempts at gaining an emotional response.
0/5
I don’t believe in censoring books but this shouldn’t have been published.
This was a fun read and really drew me in. Intentional or not, I loved the obvious nods to the 90's TV show Sliders. One of the best books I've read this year.
Just ok. Initially I attributed the plodding, overly-simple language as a symptom of the protagonists depression, that same ‘we’re about to get to the secret’ style of hollow self-help books buuuut nothing changed when the character did. Like self-help books you’ll likely find here no soul, no nuance, no answers- just the same hollow platitudes about never knowing if it’ll get better if you pack it in now. Not enough sci for sci-fi. Just saying multiverse & invoking Schrödinger a couple times doesn’t wish a book into a different genre. Repetitive but still short. The occasional well-turned phrase counterbalanced by cringey poetry. I wouldn’t, if I were you.
