I love the magic mixed into the ordinary and Matt Haig is always great at walking the line between weird and normal. I think this is his best one yet.

Matt Haig is such a gifted writer that at times, in each of his books, I come across a sentence or a paragraph that stops my reading in its tracks because it is so good. The Life Impossible is no different with sentences and paragraphs like the following: "Someone once told me the way to die happy is to die complete. To live like you eat a delicious meal. To enjoy every course so that when you are finished you are full and enjoyed every mouthful, but aren't too sad there is no more." Or "If only we could always have the perspective of the future with us as we live in the present", "This is the challenge of life, isn't it? Moving forward without annihilating what has gone before. Know what to clasp onto and what to release without destroying yourself. Trying not to be the meteor and the dinosaur at once." finally, "It showed that love and kindness could sometimes be wrapped in rage and scorn."
Despite these exquisite sentences, I am not sure I loved The Life Impossible. It is good - it is just a little different at times. It is an easy, mostly enjoyable read that never quite reaches the heights of The Humands or the Midnight Library. I am sure it will be a Best Seller, it just, at least for me, falls a little short of the best Haig books.

Whenever I see a new book by Matt Haig, I pounce on it knowing I’m in for a magical adventure. I swear, this author is a genius. In The Life Impossible, readers are transported from ordinary life to an astonishing adventure in Ibiza. If what happens in this novel were really true, I’d be packing my bags and on a plane there right now.

Wow! Wow! Wow! Buckle up and get ready for a wild, human, fulfilling ride. In preparing to read this book, readers should suspend disbelief and relish in the knowledge that Matt Haig will hold you close and with care through the very end. What a book.

I've enjoyed several of his books and this one will also stick with me. The writing is astounding, so many sentences that just nail what it means to be human.

I am overwhelmed by even thinking about the author's writing process to pull a work with so many angles together. I hope this book finds its way into many many hands. A show stopper. Thanks to NetGalley for an early copy.