My initial thoughts upon finishing this were mostly that it was a perfectly fine book but that it wouldn’t stick with me, and that has indeed turned out to be the case. It’s been a month since I’ve finished it, and it’s already almost fallen out of my head completely. But it was a short, entertaining read, so if that’s something you’re looking for, and you can stand some blatant emotional manipulation, this might be the book for you!
What the blurb doesn’t tell you is that book starts with the main character unaliving herself, and that’s how she comes to be in the Midnight Library, from which she can explore all the lives she didn’t live, and maybe pick one to stay in. The main point of the book seems to be to explore that very human pain of having made a choice, and in doing so cut off who knows how many other experiences that will now never happen. The character’s main journey is surprisingly not to become undepressed, but to learn that choices once made are not forever, and that the lives you haven’t lived don’t take away from the one you could. Anyway, it turned out surprisingly unschmaltzy at the end, even though there was still a bit of that. (It probably helps that the author has personal experience with being horrifically depressed.)
I think this would probably make a really good audiobook, but I did the hard copy and zoomed through it. I wouldn’t say no to reading another of this author’s books, but I probably won’t go seeking them out, either.