Nora's life is 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, which is the best way to live?

I have to question myself as to why I am writing this as no one is reading along, no one at all. It is just me and my keyboard and my little area of Wattpad. My stories are a different thing, no one reads them either, but that's not why I write. My stories are my stories and they'll always be my stories though this review blog thingy or whatever it is ... well ... I guess it is mine too.

Anyhow onwards and .... Eh ... onwards ...

This biggest regret I have with reading this book is that it was the very next book I read after Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Both books on the what if's, and the choices not made or could have been made. Dark Matter was an excellent read so I'd be holding The Midnight Library up for scrutiny and that took away from it slightly even with the fact that The Midnight Library can really hold its own.

This story was more of a quantum leap within the possibilities of one's own life time, seeing the possibilities of what could have been if such and such hadn't happened or might have happened, the multiverse of who we are and could be. I liked this book a lot and yeah, it did suffer slightly being the second of the two afore mentioned books to be read however, there were two turns in this story that I would have liked to see expanded upon a little more, other than that ... excellent read with a very satisfying ending.

In previous posts I go on about Shadow and Bone and the series that follows both in books and on Netflix. I had heard that Six of Crows was the better book but honestly, my difficulties with it all continues. I had started to read Six of Crows in April 2021, but it has been put aside and I'm breaking my number one rule with reading ... Never DNF a read.

If it is a decent or not so decent read, or is taking too long to get going, stick with it, so many reads come good before it ends. This though, is a struggle for me. In the past there have been reads that were just decent and nothing more but became so much more towards the end of the read. The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins is one such book.

I remember when The Girl on the Train was released as a book, I expected it to be something that is not for me, that it may be something aimed at lady-based audience. I did hear a lot of people speak about it and speak well about it too, still I believed it wasn't for me. Approximately six months after its release, still a while before a movie release came about, I seen that the book was on sale at half price, so I thought what the hell ... if I wasn't to like it then I only paid half the original price so that was alright with me.

For the most part it was a slow read, a pleasant read but nothing exceptional, not until the last fifty or sixty pages. The end of the book turned a nothing special book into a pleasantly surprising read and this is not the only book that has done this to me, so I have a rule to never DNF a book but with Six of Crows ... I just can't go on.

Maybe I just need to leave it a bit, I'll see. The Shadow and Bone series too, a week after its release on Netflix and I've only watched fives of the eight episodes and I'd rather watch anything else than go back and complete it, ah well.

I surprised myself a little to find when looking through my library, I already own a Leigh Bardugo book, she who of course wrote Shadow and Bone, and the Six of Crows. Being a superhero fan, I purchased a four-book series a couple years ago. DC Icons series. Four DC heroes with one book dedicated to each of them.

A pre-Batman Bruce Wayne story Batman: Nightcrawler I have read, with Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and Superman being the subjects of the other three books, all of which I have yet to read. Leigh Bardugo wrote the Wonder Woman story and I'm not sure if I have it right, but it may feature the race adapted for the Wonder Woman 1984 movie.

No point in putting that out as a question as I won't be getting any replies back. Anyhow with my lack of interest in her GreishaVerse books, how likely am I to complete her Wonder Woman story? Only time will tell, I guess.

Anyhow, into May we go ... first read of the month will be Artemis by Andy Weir, the follow up to his book The Martian which is a good read if a bit over sciency ... sciency, is that a word?? It is now ...