A review by manthasbookstack
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

2.0

Thank you netgalley and canongate for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

Matt Haig is a good writer but I think I just didn’t gel with the story. I found it too far fetched that the plot a lot of the time just seemed silly. I was sat there thinking I just didn’t really care what happened. 

I am usually a fan of short chapters but this made the story very jerky and fragmented. 

I understand that there were deeper meanings in there which is usual for Haig’s books but this just felt forced and overly convoluted. 

The characters were an odd choice (an elderly retired maths teacher) and not overly memorable and all round pretty dull. It felt like the main character being  a maths teacher was just an excuse to chuck in some philosophical maths concepts. 

I really wanted to like it and made sure to read the whole thing but unfortunately it left me very disappointed.