Heey, Time for another review!
I was really excited for this one, as it’s the second in the midnight world serie; the first one being The midnight Library.
4 ⭐️ / 5 stars
Storygraph
In this one we follow Wilbur, as he dies and go through his life aboard the midnight train. This one feels so much less heavy than it’s previous one; the main theme being how love knows no boundaries. As we see Wilbur pass through ages, his different loses and problematics, we see Maggie always being a constant. Even though they didn’t stay married as long as they thought they would, their love started way before and remains- ghost Wilbur would do anything to make ammend and change things.
I love when stories loop around and finishes how it started; furthermore, I appreciated the little wink at the other book in the mention of our other lifetimes that are all happening at once, where things might be a little different.
” The dark shade all around the face in the background makes it more.. magical. And I like that idea. About how you need the dark sometimes to make the other things brighter”
” If you love someone they don’t really leave. Obviously they do. But not entirely. They live in your mind. You keep them alive. You can lose everything but you can’t lose love “
” I think the trouble with life is we do things because we should. We act for outside eyes. I’m trying to live it the other way round. To do what feels right deep down even if it shouldn’t be.”
” The Ghost realised again that he may have misunderstood how to live. He always thought that to succeed in life you just had to keep spinning. Like a sycamore seed on the wind. And that the faster you span the further you’d reach. That, provided you kept accelerating, you could outrun scarcity, outrun your past, outrun your nightmares. Yet he saw now, watching his young self, the lengths he had gone to avoid what the tender part of his heart was really feeling “