Larisa’s Reviews > The Midnight Library > Status Update

Side note about MC: a bit over the top to be Multitalented (swimming, chess, music), about to get married & to be encouraged in every way by an,involved family. What happened to you to give everything up like that, genuinely? I suffer from depression, but it's always triggered by more than just pressure & expectations from family, peers, society, etc.
Need to read on, perhaps answers await ahead.

The suicide part, now I realise, can be very triggering for some people. Although I'm not personally triggered, I'm somewhat upset by it and I'm hoping things will get better or more positive. Feels like from the get go the books sets out to achieve a happy ending through a self-searching journey, and that's not bad, only a bit done-before therefore risking failure to become cliché. Fingers crossed

So far: Engaging, interesting, visually evocative.
Very smart element: short chapters (2-3 pages long). It's far better to follow the story. Although this doesn't actually break the flow of narrative, it makes it easier for the reader to digest such a heavy file rouge (aka the main character's suicide, though so far it's never openly called that or explicitly described to the reader, we're lead to understand it is).