The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library

2020

Ratings797

Average rating3.8

15

If this book helped your mental health that is great. I do not want to knock it if it's important to people, so if you are fond of this book for that reason you should stop reading this review as I am critical of it, but also want to be mindful it could help some people. 

I think this book has some views on life and health that doesn't sit right with me. Having someone stop himself from getting a heart attack because “he got healthy again” is a problematic view point, especially considering most heart diseases are hereditary and not because you don't work out as much as you did when you were 20. I also think the librarian telling someone who committed suicide that there's “Tissues are like lives. There are always more” ignorant.... If someone commits suicide that's it. I think if I was a loved one of someone who committed suicide I would be very upset seeing that be said. 

October 27, 2023Report this review