Can I elect to give this book more than 5 stars? This book is everywhere right now and for good reason. It's the most beautifully written book I've read in years. I deeply cared for these characters, leaving me to wipe my eyes periodically. I knew after reading the first 50 pages it would have a space on my favorites shelf. While this is considered a love story, expect the unexpected. In the end, it's less about romantic relationships and more about the strong commitment of lifelong friends and co-creators. It immerses you in the world of video game design while revealing the inner world that makes each character come alive. I just want to read it all over again!

I loved this book and am probably the only person I know who has never played a video game. It’s not my typical read and yet I couldn’t put it down. Wonderful characters and exploration of platonic love and friendship. Highly recommended.

The story of two childhood friends who go on to create video games. It’s the story of their professional and personal relationship as it evolves over 30 years.
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I’ll start with the good. You can enjoy this book without knowing a thing about gaming. Take it from me a super not gamer. This book is easy to read, I was hooked pretty early on and wanted to see where Sam & Sadie’s relationship would go. It reads almost like YA in the sense that the storytelling moves quickly sentences to sentence. I also loved seeing LA as a setting for much of the novel, since I live here.
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Ultimately I didn’t care for this book. It is too long, maybe 150 pages too long. The back half of the book completely falls apart. The author attempts to do things with form but completely looses track of the storytelling and soul of this novel in doing so. It almost felt like a writing class exercise and not a novel toward the end.
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There are also some plot elements that were way too on the nose (the title included). I can’t say what, I’ll just say when you start to combine 2-3 hot button issues in the climax of the novel it feels manipulative and a little lazy. Not to mention that in a strange way it felt like the author didn’t fully go there. She used these buzzy topics but shied away from the mess of it all.
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I’ve been describing this book as diet A LITTLE LIFE. Yes, it’s about friendship. Yes, there are sad backstories and events. Ultimately there isn’t the emotional resonance or truthful storytelling that could make me latch on to this book like so many other people. It’s a beach read with a little dash of current events.

A beautiful reflection on the power of friendship, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow follows Sam and Sadie from childhood and explores how their love of video games keeps pulling them together - even when the circumstances of life threatens to pull them apart.

I’m not sure how I continue to live knowing this book is out in the world every minute of every day. Somehow Gabrielle Zevin broke and mended my heart in less than 500 pages.

Sam and Sadie’s love story is one of the best I’ve read to not have a “happy ending.” So often, we are given neat, tidy endings to novels. This was messy, real and raw. A true look at how friendships can ebb and flow – how love stories can be more than just romantic.

Do NOT even get me started on that section written from Marx’s perspective. The one person who loved Sam and Sadie both so purely that you could only hope to have a person like him in your life.

The exploration of Sam’s disability and how it’s handled is also one of Zevin’s great feats. She does so much to make us understand how Sam’s every day life is changed by the injuries to his foot without making that his only defining quality. Too often, authors miss the mark in that respect, doing a disservice to the disability community. .
A beautiful reflection on love, life and grief – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow should be an addition to everyone’s library.

This was an unexpected 4 star. I absolutely loved this I'm a gamer myself so I loved the characters in this.
A book about friendship, love with the backdrop of gaming

You do not have to be a gamer to be touched by and enjoy this book. Although growing up in the 90s and playing a few games of Donkey Kong and Super Mario does give it just the right amount of nostalgia. I enjoyed this book and finished it quickly. I loved the character development and following their relationship across decades. I also love a book that doesn't wrap up everything in a nice happy ending, but also doesn't leave me gut wrenched. This was an overall good read!

This story spans the lives of a boy and a girl, from their early teens to their mid-thirties. Sam and Sadie bond when he is in the hospital recovering from a car crash, and she happens to strike up a conversation with him. From there, their lives intertwine for years, as they become friends, create videogames together, form a company that becomes very successful, and continue living their lives. The story is a bit too long, and becomes a little repetitive towards the end, but their story is realistic, and in the end uplifting. I have never used the online dictionary as much as I did reading this book. I'm not sure all the fancy words were needed, or why the author chose to use them when others would have worked just as well. Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for providing an ARC.

I'm a little behind on my ARCs., and at this point I'm not sure what I can say about this wonderful novel that hasn't already been said - I am definitely on board with the rave reviews. This book is the perfect example of books building empathy. Do I care at all about video games? No I do not. Do I now better understand the appeal? I sure do. Did I care about the characters? I sure did.
We meet Sam and Sadie when they stumble upon each other in the hospital, where Sam is a patient, and Sadie's sister is, and these two very different tweens bond over their love of video games - fast forward, they become wildly successful game development partners, with naturally many trials and tribulations along the way. We also meet Marx, Sam's college roommate and eventual producer, who becomes inextricably entwined in both their lives as a result of convincing his father to seed their budding company.
I savored this saga, which in the end is not really at all about video games, but about love, friendship, identity, and grief. If that seems like a lot to tackle, it is, though Gabrielle Zevin does so nearly flawlessly. 5 solid stars, and will definitely make the top tier of my own best reads of the year.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author in exchange for my honest review.

Follow Sadie and Sam- two childhood friends- as they decide to make a video game together after having no communication with each other for years. Time fluctuates fluidly as readers delve into their lives and become part of their love, dreams, and trauma.

I don't really know what I was expecting from this novel, but I found myself loving this from its first page. Maybe it's the fact that I'm a gamer, or maybe the fact that I went through my own trauma over the years. But ultimately, I found this was a frank look at life.

There's a beautiful sentiment of Sam and Sadie having a friendship that transcends the need of being lovers. Readers see the dichotomy of their relationship as the years go by, and I thought that captured the reality of true friendship extremely well.

There was just the right amount of levity for the heartbreaks the characters endure. But the story also doesn't shy away from the painful moments and how they affect each person differently.

This will definitely be a novel that stays on my mind for a while.

Wow oh wow! I heard so much about this book and was so excited to read it. It definitely lived up to the hype of it and I would recommend you go into it blind now knowing what to expect.

This story follows Sadie and Sam over the course of 30 years. Starting with how they met, you get to see their highs and lows (and there are many) with regards to each other and their lives. As kids, they love video games and when they reunite in college - they take a chance and make one of the most famous video games ever. I am not a gamer, at all. And, yet, I enjoyed this one so much. The author gives the reader so much to think about that not only includes little nods to real games and the intricacies to building one but also to grief, sexuality, love, friendship and betrayal. I think the author made a lot of risks with writing style, the pretentious choice in words, for example, but it was a risk that pays off.

“What is a game? It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption.”

I would describe this one as “wandering” if I had to use only one word and to be honest that’s exactly how I like my stories lately. The writing isn’t always spectacular but it’s very reflective and fluid. Because the characters are so flawed (sometimes downright infuriating), you get so much from them including rage, jealousy, warmheartedness, and LOTS of misunderstanding. As much as I wanted to shake the sense into them, I loved how earnest they were. I won’t forget the characters for a long time. And!! The side characters are equally as earnest and some of my favorite.

Oh how I loved this book! I wasn’t expecting such a complex story, woven through the two main characters who develop video games. What starts a relationship between two young children turns into a lifelong intertwining of imaginations and real life.

Without giving too much away, this book covers themes such as abuse, loss, mental and physical health struggles all while focusing on what it makes to build creativity and new worlds.

I can’t recommend this book enough!

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a coming of age story about Sadie and Sam, two game designers who first meet as kids under tragic circumstances and are reunited later in life. Spanning decades, the novel follows Sam and Sadie as they turn their shared love for video games into a partnership that ends up completely changing their lives.

As a lifelong video game player, I loved this book. It’s quirky and beautifully written, and it was really fun imagining the games Sadie and Sam came up with. It was also exciting to read a book that begins in the 90s and is queer in a modern way. The third main character, Marx, was my favorite one and I think it’s a sentiment that many readers share - both Sam and Sadie had moments where they made me want to rip my hair out, but I prefer characters to be flawed rather than having absolutely no vices. This book is getting a lot of hype and I think deservedly so, but I couldn’t help but compare it with Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life - both feature main characters who are disabled, traumatized, and generally have a ton of bad things happen to them. While A Little Life had a much stronger emotional impact on me, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow doesn’t tilt into the ‘trauma porn’ territory that Yanagihara’s book is often described as.

TLDR: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a brilliant story about friendship, love, and grief, set against the backdrop of the early gaming industry. It’s original and creative, and definitely made me nostalgic for my teenage years.

Sam and Sadie met in the hospital as Sam was recovering from a car accident, and Sadie's sister cancer.. Their common interest in video games allowed their friendship to blossom. When Sadie doesn't tell Sam the truth, their friendship gets torn apart until one day when Sam spots Sadie in a subway and their friendship rekindles and they go into making video games together.

This story spans over a few decades and covers friendship, illness, death/loss of loved ones, and troubles that friendship faces. I personally struggled through the first 40-50%. I found it a bit slow, but the last half I went through very quick as I felt it picked up pace. I think if you aren't into video games you will get through this book faster than me as it's not my thing. It was a lovely story about friendship though..

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf Publishing Group for this e-Arc. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is available now!

It's taken me a while to do this review because I still don't know how to articulate how deeply I love this book. I read the ARC and immediately pre-ordered a physical copy along with the audiobook. The last time I read a book several times in a row across different formats was The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a beautiful coming of age novel in which you experience every emotion and see so many aspects of human connection and relationships all centered around the passion of video games. Gabrielle Zevin knows how to write characters. I feel like I could perfectly picture every character, even if they were briefly mentioned and I could feel every experience of the main characters. This story depicts, loss, success, passion, failure, and love in such a real and raw way that I'm going to be thinking about this book for years to come.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is an intricate story through decades and video games. This story takes the reader on a journey of friendship, love, loss, failure, and success. Our main characters Sadie and Sam, are best friends, or enemies, depending on the era, but always wanting the best for each other. I still can’t decide if I liked either one of them to be honest.

I found this story to be original and intriguing. I loved all the video games and reading about the process of building games and coming up with those ideas. Some of it was way over my head but that was expected. Something that I loved about this book was that the characters' storylines were so realistic and believable. They didn’t all get happy endings, they had really sad and hard things happen to them, they were quite unlikable at some points, but it all felt so genuine. I loved the time period it was written in, spanning the 80’s, 90’, 00’s, it was nostalgic and enjoyable. 4 Stars.

The hype I have been seeing over this book is definitely real and also deserved!

I loved this book. The writing was superb. I loved the scenes from the past, they brought back many childhood memories!! This was a book with an extremely well developed plot, perfectly written characters, and so much more. I would absolutely recommend this book to others!! Thank you very much to the publisher and to NetGalley for the ARC. This book is having tons of success, and after reading the book myself; I can certainly see why.

If you love gaming, you should read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. If you don’t love gaming, you should read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

This book is about two friends who’ve had a deep connection since childhood that embark upon the world of designing a video game together. This might sound like a simple enough plot, but (I swear) each chapter brought a new and unexpected storyline. A flip of the page could be funny, tragic, exciting, emotional; you really follow the characters through an expanse of emotions and situations.

Sam, Sadie and Marx–our main characters–are all incredibly well developed and even though the novel spans 30 years, it’s easy to stay afloat no matter where we come up for air in time, because these characters are our guiding light. We know them, so we are able to navigate the story through their eyes.

If you grew up in the 90s, this book will hit you with the nostalgia even if you weren’t a gamer. If you were a gamer of any kind, this book will have you googling where to buy a tamagotchi and a gameboy.

This book is a deep, almost poetic story of the human desire to express our story in whatever medium speaks to us. To Sadie and Sam, the medium is games.

It’s going to seem oddly specific but this book was written for you if:
-you loved the A Dark Quiet Death episode of Mythic Quest
-You’ve ever been a gamer of any kind
-You want to read a story about the complex, wonderful, sometimes painful relationship of having a best friend that you love unconditionally

I was very invested in this book from the start. Seeing games that I grew up playing was epic. The plot started to lose my interest about 30% in though.

Update! Picked this one up again and here is my full review:

🎮 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 🕹

This was a good one! It was pretty slow, but like an enjoyable slow. There was a lot of backstory to these characters and I can appreciate that when the writing is done well.

And video games are a huge part of my life so I always enjoy reading about them. Especially the 90’s ones (Oregon Trail anyone?).

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This book was not for me and I know it is one of the top books of the summer. It was really drawn out about some friends that create video games together. I did enjoy the world of game development.