Book Recommendation – The Life Impossible

Since reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, I’ve come to enjoy his stories.  I had been on a wait list to read his latest book, The Life Impossible for a while.  I was happy when it was finally my turn to get it

I won’t lie, this was a bit different than his others.  It was a bit more … Sci-fi/Magical/Fantasy.  I hadn’t expected that.

I almost had to think of this as a movie, if that makes sense.  When I came at it from that angle, I enjoyed it a lot more.

Before I go on, here is the Goodreads synopsis:

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide

“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

Grace, the Math teacher, tends to talk math a bit much as she thinks.  It’s kind of a coping mechanism for her.  Some people eat when they cope, she does math problems.  Ok.

I felt the characters were “real” enough and I connected with them. The story is one that kept my interest.  There were times that I felt the story could have been a Twilight Zone or Star Trek episode, which isn’t a bad thing.

I can’t say that everyone will enjoy the book, I’m sure some of my readers will enjoy it.  Tell me what you think of it…

3 out of 5 stars.