Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Contemporary | Fiction
416 Pages
Released July 2022
Rating: ★★★★
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This book honestly has me a bit perplexed. For starters, this book is being raved about everywhere, topping favorites lists by many of my favorite booktubers. The premise had me very intrigued and hopeful as well.
The story follows the multi-decade friendship of Sadie and Sam - who meet as children in a game room of a children’s hospital. They bond over a shared love of video games but their friendship falls apart after a misunderstanding - and so begins a very real, gritty, honest book about the ups and downs of long-term friendships. Sadie and Sam reunite as young adults and together end up developing a wildly successful video game. This success brings added complexity and strain into an already tumultuous relationship.
I enjoyed this book. I enjoyed the nerdy video-game aspect of it and I do feel like it didn’t shy away from the complications that long friendships experience-particularly under the weight of success. That said, I had a really hard time relating to the characters based off off decisions that they made. This book felt propelled forward by series of misunderstandings - a trope which I am not very fond of in novels. Despite their long friendship, it felt like communication (outside of designing a video game) was non-existent between Sadie and Sam as they really didn’t seem to understand each other very well.
The biggest shining light in this book was Marx, Sam’s college roommate, who is an absolute sweetheart and one-hundred precent the the glue that holds everything together. He felt like the only reasonable main character in this book, which was frustrating.
It was a good read - enjoyable, and interesting, with complex characters - but the constant miscommunication made it really difficult to fully enjoy.