They hold books that show a different life, the life that you would have lived if you had made a different choice at any given point. The premise for The Midnight Library is no less interesting than Haig’s other books: somewhere in the moment between life and death, there is a library where the shelves go on forever. But I was so taken by The Midnight Library, which I have read, that I immediately added both to my TBR when I finished reading it. Unfortunately, the first rule of The Albatross Society, a secret group that protects people like Tom is ‘Don’t fall in love.’ But Tom is hiding a secret: he has a rare condition that has kept him alive for centuries (no wonder he knows his history so well….). On his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher, and love seems to be the order of the day. In How to Stop Time, Tom Hazard is an apparently 41-year-old high school teacher, who returned to his hometown to settle down and become a history teacher. The alien finds himself learning all about humans and has to decide between finishing his mission and going home or staying to find a new home here on earth. It turns out that the human wasn’t a very nice man, which the alien who now inhabits his body discovers when sent to hide evidence that the human has found the solution to a difficult math problem. In The Humans, his lead character is a body-snatching alien who occupies the body of a human.

Potential trigger warnings for cheating, self-harm, drug overdose, parental death, and suicide.Matt Haig’s books have the most interesting premises. If you’d like to check it out, click the button below to grab a copy from an indie bookseller. It was a beautifully written book and one I’m sure I’ll be thinking about for a long time to come.

I loved Nora, and found myself hoping (so hard) that she would find her happy-ever-after, her dream life, the one where all the stars aligned just so. It’s a moving story about finding your path, your happiness, and being your truest self.

But with every life there are challenges to be considered and overcome. Her school librarian is there, and tells her that there is a book for every version of her life that could ever exist, based on each decision she’s ever made.Īnd the best bit? She can open the books and step into those lives, to see what they would have been like, until she finds the life she wants the most. Nora Seed hates her life, and tries to end it, only to find herself in a strange library with an infinite amount of ever-moving books. Thank you to Viking Books for gifting me a review copy of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.

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