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Did Nora make the right choice in the end?

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Spoilers ahead: talking through the final chapters and the life Nora chooses.

The Midnight Library Matt Haig

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Jordan Kim

I finished it last night and I keep going back and forth. Part of me wanted her to stay in one of the “better” lives. Did the ending feel earned to you, or too neat?

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  1. Hana Sato

    Earned, for me. Every life she tried taught her something the root life needed. Staying anywhere else would have meant living someone else’s story.

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  2. Leo Martins

    I thought it was a little tidy, but I think that’s the point. It’s a book about hope, and hope is allowed to be tidy sometimes.

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    1. Jordan Kim

      “Hope is allowed to be tidy” is going on a sticky note above my desk.

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