It’s frustrating that I didn’t enjoy the book

Childhood friends, Sadie and Sam reunited one day and after few meet ups, they decided to create their own video game which then became a stepping stone into the world of fame. The blurb does sounds amazing, referencing many millennials things which I’m always up for 🙌🏻

The prose was intelligent but pointless. In addition to the pretentious MC, Sadie 🙄 I was delusional thinking Sadie could be the next Elizabeth Zott (from Lessons in Chemistry). Oh man, I was wrong..

Sadie is lowkey horny
half-hearted
and egocentric.

Sam isn’t an exception either. Choding (Korean slang word) suits him best. Although he’s better than Sadie when it comes to commitment.

This is not a friends-to-lovers story. Even the author has emphasised on that. But I can’t help not to be infuriated by their toxic friendship! Both are immature, constantly bickering (almost all of their problems are unsolved) and have no chemistry with any other characters. In fact, all relationships in here weren’t deep as claimed. Sadie was “delulu” when she slept with her own professor. That was a red flag 🚩 I should’ve realised sooner.

“Zoe & Sadie had two interactions and claimed each other best friend, but Sadie wasn’t affected to Zoe as much as Dov”.

What a sadist loner. Zoe is her only female friend mentioned in here (more of friend of a friend) but they had no interaction at all other than that one time before Zoe moves to different city, and of course Sadie has more affection towards her old geezer 😭

Sorry that this review felt like slandering characters but it’s only because this book is character driven. The plot mixes up with games’ storyline and interviews that took place further in the future. I- 🫠 but honestly, their games have better plots.

Often times, I felt the author was trying too hard to have mix race characters in her story and it’s just.. not giving. Lazy dumping of Asian American people, I’d say.

Gah the ending! Very unsettling - they weren’t really honest with each other IMO

P/s: justice to Marx please. He’s the only relevant character

A book about friendship and the love of video games. While the writing was good, I also wasn't necessarily thrilled by the story.

4.5 Stars rounded up.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a beautifully written love letter to friendship and video games. It's also a book I'll be rereading in the future.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow continues to occupy my thoughts as an exceptional book. Despite not having much in common with the Gen X protagonists, Sadie and Sam, other than our birth year, I am drawn to their coming-of-age journey. The narrative revolves heavily around video games, but Gabrielle Zevin's writing captivated me, holding my interest even in a topic that typically bores me. Sadie and Sam became the most cherished characters in my decade of reading. Although the novel is a masterpiece, it may not resonate with everyone due to its dense text, risky techniques, and unsettling plot. Yet, within its 416 pages lies a profound experience distinct from Zevin's previous works. It will be difficult for any future book to compare, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow has unquestionably secured a spot on my all-time favourites shelf. My heartfelt gratitude to the author and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for the gifted review copy via NetGalley. Now available.

What an incredible ride. Sadie and Sam's dynamic as best friends/????? was just beautifully written and resonated with me on so many levels. I am so excited to add this to our collection, as Zevin has quickly become one of my favorite writers. 5 stars.

A remarkable love letter to games and gaming told in a coming of age novel. This remarkable work of fiction feels as humanizing and as messy as you expect an honest narrative of two life long friends to be. Kind and nuanced disability representation is thoughtfully written. One of the best reads do the year.

This book was so unique and yet as I was reading it I could totally picture a movie being made about it. The ending wasn’t my favourite but still did not take away from an interesting read which included likeable yet flaw-filled characters. Great story, definitely recommend.

This book was SO GOOD. I was gratified to see that it received so much acclaim and press once it was released to the general public.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.



So when I first started reading this is could not get into it, didn’t understand the hype of it. I had to give myself a good month off of it to start it again. I don’t know what it was at first but I finally picked it back up and got into it!!

Once I got into it. I fell in love like everyone else. I felt like they were my best friends and they always had been.

This book is hard to describe. The complexity of this story and the characters is so much more than meets the eye. I am a big character driven book lover so if you are too then this will be something right up your alley. I also loved all of the video game references which made me nostalgic. The friendships in this book are unbeatable!

I am not going to lie I teared up several times.
I still have not yet recovered from the ending.

About 100 pages into this book I just knew that I was going to love it! It's such a great book about love and true friendships. It is definitely going on my list of favorite all time books.

I'm late to the game--always am with the most popular and talked-about books--but if you haven't given Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow a chance yet, do! This was an engrossing and moving book that is absolutely worthy of the hype.

While I appreciate the writing the book was just not for me. Found the subject matter dry and never captured my interest. 3 stars

A slow burn, this adult novel follows the dynamic friendship of two video game enthusiasts who blossom together through hardships. Although they are from different backgrounds, Sadie and Sam discover they have a similar interest, first meeting in a hospital due to different circumstances. They meet again in college, once again by chance as they go to different colleges. Both of them go through different traumatic experiences, one causing a severely damaged leg, while the other causes a severely damaged heart, and yet they both share the same trauma of being video game developers. Sadie's character is difficult to sympathyze with at first as she runs after a professor who she know is married, but her relationship with Marx changed my feelings. Sam, clearly an introvert, is a little easier for me to relate to, although his trauma and leg make it very easy to feel sorrowful. A secondary character, Marx, Sam's college roommate and later producer of the company Sadie and Sam develop, is honestly my favorite character of the novel. Together the trio create an interesting friend group dynamic that was a little cliche at first, but I think it naturally progressed the way that it did for good reason.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is not something I would normally pick up; however, it was recommended by several friends. This book took me entirely too long to read and I was not invested until 66% of the way through it. The writing style and content did not appeal to me, but I’m sure to the right read it would be fantastic!

I’ve heard such good things about this one that I wonder if my expectations were just too high bc I didn’t enjoy it. Too much video game info and it just seemed to drag. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for this copy for review

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of those books that you continue to think about days after you are done reading. It just sticks with you. The ups and downs of Sam and Sadie's friendship is just real. Sometimes you just wanted to shake them! Though sometimes the video game language was over my head... I did appreciate it.

The writing was brilliant. It was heartbreaking, frustrating, sweet, and hopeful all at different times. The story was always interesting. But if I’m completely honest, I did not connect with Sadie and at times found her spoiled, inflexible, unforgiving and judgmental with Sam while being weak, compromising, and completely forgiving with Dov. How could she stay friends with Dov while shutting Sam from her life? I don’t know. This left me bewildered and frustrated. But the book — all in all — was great. And Marx was beautiful; neither of them deserved him. That being said — read this book, because you’ll love and hate it all at once. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a free copy. 4.5 stars

3.5 I really wanted to love this book after hearing all the hype. Not sure if I was expecting to much because of all the hype but this book was not for me. It was written beautifully and really gets into the characters but felt a little to slow for me. This book follows Sam and Sadie video game developers who became friends as kids while Sam was in the hospital recovering from a bad car accident and refused to speak him and Sadie bond over Oregon trail and become friends for life and partners in their own video game company. We continue to follow the twos friendship as it wax’s and wains based on life’s challenges. Overall the book is a great character study on friendship but was not for me. I will say the characters got on my nerves a bit and I needed a little more story to stay interested. Even being a fan of video games this book felt slow to me and warning for those who don’t like sad books this book is sad! I would like to thank Netgalley and the publishers for a chance to read this book for an honest review.

Brilliant unlike anything Iv read before , I’m not a gamer but this very human story of friendship youth love and life is outstanding !