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Just finished The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and I have to say that I don't understand the hype.
Just finished The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and I have to say that I don't understand the hype.

I picked up the book because it was awarded best fiction by Goodreads but I found the book to be extremely underwhelming. First of all, the plot was so predictable, a third into the book and you know exactly how it it's going to end and what the over all message is going to be. Second of all , the book has no subtly, many times while I was reading the book, it felt like I was reading a non fiction or a self help book. Because it comes of us preaching a lot of the times I love it when novels offer you life lessons but unlike non fiction it has to do it in a subtle manner, we are supposed to infer the lessons from the conflicts and the situations the main characters go through. This book has no such subtlety, the characters directly tell you all the life lessons. This for some reason made me feel like I was reading a children's book. Sorry about the rant, also tell me what you thought about the book.