This book started off strong and sweet from what I thought would be young love and then you see how these two have grown up. It’s a unique perspective as you follow those two through the gaming world. Then towards the last third of the book it gets a little weird and metaphysical to me, which I enjoyed less. 3 star rating for this one, I liked it fine enough, but it was a little too out there to be a book I loved. Thanks to the publisher.

I quite enjoyed Zevin's 2015 title, "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry," but "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" is truly something else. I honestly had to take a few days to sit with this book before writing this review. This is the kind of book that absolutely merits a reread, be it right after you finish reading it the first time or a few years down the road. It's definitely a book that will give you something new to ponder with each read.

Though this book touches a lot on what it takes to create a good video game, more than anything it is an ode to friendship. Sam and Sadie are wonderfully complex and flawed. They bring out the best and the worst in each other, and dear Marx does his best to hold them together.

I'm really struggling to find the words to express how this book made me feel. It's just something you have to experience for yourself.

Thanks to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for sending me an e-arc of this book on NetGalley!

Wow, this book is really special! It's special because of many reasons, so let me try to elaborate on a few of them:
1. It's a book that when reading the synopsis I wouldn't have necessarily thought I'd be interested. So, if you haven't read that part yet, then don't...just dive into the book!
2. It's a book that is very genre-bending. It's probably most classified as "contemporary fiction" but it also has some romance and fantasy too.
3. For each section of the book, and then within those chapters it's told in completely different and surprising ways. Sometimes it's from the various perspectives of each main character, there are lengthy flashbacks, magazine interview articles, and even one chapter told as a video game. It's hard to explain, but so extremely creative and well-written.
4. Yes, the overall theme involves video games, but don't let that deter you. I played a fair amount of video games in high school/college, but am absolutely not a "gamer" especially now. However, I still loved this story.

This book hits very deep on a variety of levels and was just simply fantastic. It's absolutely a 5 star read!

OOF. I wanted this to be a 5 star read. So many people declared this was one of their favorite books, so I was SO EXCITED.

Was it great? YES. It was beautiful, I was intrigued, I kept reading/listening to see where it was going.

HOWEVER. There was a lot of trauma. This book would build the reader up, and excite them, then tear you down. For a little while I kept thinking, 'I am going to buy the physical copy, I adore this,' and then I got to one pivotal point and was so upset that I no longer liked what I had read.

There are a LOT of trigger warnings in this book. Do yourself a favor and look into it, because parts are graphic and dark.

A story of love, grief and friendship. This book has characters you can root for, even when they don’t make the smartest decisions.

I really REALLY wanted to love this book. It's late 90s-early 2000s setting brought back so many memories, and I became very invested in the relationships from the start.n At it's very best, the relationships are the biggest strength of the novel, as the interplay between the major characters so closely mirror the messiness of normal relationships. They mess up, make bad choices, and then have to deal with the real repercussions of those choices.

But for whatever reason, the last 3rd of the book felt hard to become invested in. Honestly I haven't pinpointed why yet - I think I just loved it so much at first, that the ending didn't carry the same impact, That said, it was an enjoyable read, and I don't regret sticking with it.

One of my favorite books of 2022. A completely exhilarating and beautifully written story of two childhood friends, unlike any other I’ve read.

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin is a novel about work, as the author describes it at the end of her acknowledgments. It is a novel about video games, and what it meant to be a young person at the turn of the 21st century, how unequivocally the world changed and was changed by you. But most of all, this is a novel about Love. In Portuguese (my native tongue), love can be described and written in two ways, with a capital L or a lowercase l. The lowercase informs us of the temporality of the feeling, the excitement of romance, and a fleeting narrative that we chose to inform us as individuals to validate our insecurities or appease them. However, when you capitalize Love, you make it eternal. It is now a sentiment that transcends any single person, country, language, etc. It is a noble feat of humanity, something that only the poets have really conquered. Well, and now Zevin can be counted among them, in my opinion.

This book is an epic of true love in its many forms, the love of individuals, the love of higher art, of eternity. To be remembered to be great is the goal of all epic heroes, and Zevin's Sam and Sadie are no different. Many people might have a problem transcribing this sentiment into a modern context, into a realm that is informed by tech but not limited or defined by it as Sci-Fi might be. This is a book about people and what it means to be young, old, and to lose in life. This book is not for you if you are not ready to cry and be moved. This is not a book about video games; this is a book about artistry through video games. The amount of research is palpable but never oppressive, and I think I can bridge the gap between readers who have never played any games, but it will defiantly make greater of an impact if you have.

This is by far one of the best books I have ever read and one of the few in my life that I have immediately wanted to re-start as soon as it was over.

I now have to sit and meditate more on it but just off the bat, I have truly loved this book!

Wow did this book have one of the best beginnings of a book that I have ever read. To have my mind blown- finding out what solution was about- so early in the book really set the stage for the rest of the story. I loved our main characters- Sam and Sadie (and Marx) we’re so complex, frustrating, and lovable. The beginning of this book states that it’s a story about friendship, and it absolutely is that. This book handles so many complex topics and situations from the very beginning of the book. It would be so easy for the book to gloss over some of the difficult situations, because there are so many of them, but Zevin handles each with care and respect- everything seems realistic as well. I only had two things that I did not love about this book. One, some of the tangential chapters in the book took me a second to realize their importance in the grand scheme of the story. I had a difficult time figuring out how Anna Lee’s chapters fit into the narrative as a whole. However, I just rationalized it by saying that we were getting a more holistic view of the story by understanding why Anna Lee might have acted as she did that one night. I am still not 100% sure though. The second, and this is just a personal preference, is that this book was pretty slow-paced. Slow-paced books are fine and usually very good, I just found that when I put this book down, I didn’t find myself counting down the seconds until I could pick it up again. All of this is to say that this book had so many layers from video game references to shakespeare to emily dickinson. It is such a deep book that is so well-crafted and is a unique story about the difficulties of the complicated relationships that we all experience.

This is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. The author captured the characters at different stages of their lives so beautifully, and I’m in love with them all. It will have a permanent spot on my bookshelf and recommendation list. It’s also worth saying that every single person I know who has already read this also rated it a five.

This was amazing! I loved the throwbacks to the 80s and 90s. It was such a great story about deep friendship.

This is a coming of age story of my people... late Gen-Xers to be more specific. I didn't grow up a gamer per se but spent hours trying to make it to my final destination on the Oregon Trail in Mrs. Marshall's classroom. Unlike Sadie, I didn't mind killing the bison. I was hungry and, well, I like meat. Our generation straddled the old ways and emerging technology and somehow made it work. Our generation survived our childhood and young adult traumas, quietly stashed them away, and moved onto another tomorrow. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a slow-burn love story of friendship that survives pain, jealousy, grief, and misunderstandings. Somehow Sam and Sadie always make their way back to each other through their love of games. I imagine younger readers will call this historical fiction, but to me, this time was just my life.

Thank you Knopf Doubleday and #NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

There is so much more to this book than I expected going into it! I was interested in it as a story about video game designers, but it was more about their friendships and how they changed over time in the face of their successes and failures. I enjoyed most of it but a couple things bothered me. Sadie and Dov's relationship was so toxic but the story just glossed over that like it wasn't a huge deal. It was annoying how Sadie was always mad at Sam for petty things and so she got on my nerves. Overall it was a wonderful book with interesting characters and I think it will be a huge hit.

Tomorrow x 3 was such a terrific read that several weeks after finishing it, I am experiencing a book hangover. It certainly helped that Gabrielle Zevin's story of a life-changing friendship between two brilliant people, recounted from their adolescent days to early middle age, was centered on the Gen Z experience in the 1980's, 90's, and early aughts. Having been born a year before the protagonists, Sam and Sadie, I soaked up the pop culture references (Donkey Kong and Super Mario bros! Magic Eye puzzles!) with pleasure.

Distilling the story to its core, the novel takes us through the close but tempestuous friendship between the brilliant, disabled, and charismatic Samson and the equally brilliant, insecure, but steely Sadie as they share their love of gaming as kids and later develop world-famous games while studying at Harvard and MIT, respectively. A cast of supporting characters - Sam's loving Korean grandparents; their mutual anchor of a friend, Marx, who later plays a central part of their gaming company's success as its CEO; and even Sadie's problematic professor who mentors the trio and casts a long shadow over their careers - have equally interesting stories of their own.

The writing itself - beautifully constructed if heavy on obscure vocabulary (thank goodness for kindle dictionary access)- is a dream to imbibe. I am also a fan of "experimental fiction", where the author switches tenses (writers often describe the difficulty of writing second person narration but Zevin pulls it off brilliantly for one long and harrowing chapter), and strings together traditional character dialogue with chapters written in epistolary style. This brilliant book reminded me of the "Goon Squad" and "Candy House" writings of one of my all-time favorite authors, Jennifer Egan, which from me is high praise indeed.

One concern readers have voiced is whether the plotline is too gaming-dependent. I would argue most definitely not, as while there are several technical (and fascinating) details about game development, it's a sideshow to the true heart of the novel, which is the shape-shifting nature of Sam and Sadie's friendship, sometimes on pause for years, sometimes the thread that keeps both individuals alive, and always with a solidity at its core. This is a sweeping, intelligent, extremely funny story of a beautiful friendship. One of my best reads in 2022 by far. *

*Oh, and the cover art of the book is just gorgeous.

like everyone else ive seen, i loved this book!!! elsewhere is one of my all time favourite books but i havent read anything by gabrielle zevin in years. spanning decades, it tells the story of sadie and sam two childhood friends who meet in hospital and then reconnect when they're both at college. their brains work so well together that it feels like nothing can stand in their way to make popular and amazing video games. but there's conflict and so many human emotions in amongst the coding and the set designs and, even after they all relocate to l.a and grow their business, drama continues to build. i loved loved loved the video game conversations, how original the ideas were, along with wanting to shake the book to make the characters be happy. really loved

As a lifelong gamer, I had a feeling I would like this book but I had no idea I would love it as much as I did. It is so good! It spans over the course of 25 years and we see the ups and downs of the friendship between Sam and Sadie and their professional relationship as video game developers. I loved every single character in this book, despite their many faults and follies. Each character had such a distinct voice and unique personality, which really allowed the third person omnipresent narration to shine. They are very realistic and well-developed characters that you will spend the whole book rooting for. Marx was my fave by just a bit because he’s that guy you just can’t help but love, and he had significantly less faults than the others as the glue that held Sam and Sadie together. “The arrangement went largely unmentioned: Marx was Marx, so that Sam and Sadie could be Sam and Sadie.” Truly a book that will stick with me for a long time. And the original games they created or mentioned! I just want to play them all! Ichigo sounds like a game I would’ve been obsessed with as a kid.

A lot of it resonated with me but I don’t think you need to play video games to like this one, it is a fantastic piece of literary fiction. It explores so many important themes: the cross between love and friendship, mental health, mortality, loss, identity, the escape we occasionally need from our own realities to cope, and more. This is a pretty long read and I can see some people being disinterested in the second half, but I loved it all the way through. If you liked a book like Ready Player One, then you will love this one (though I liked this book more).

Highly recommend! Read the synopsis and if it sounds interesting, just go for it!

It is very probable that my opinion of this book is skewed by having pretty high expectations from early reviews/ratings. My hang-ups were typically due to lots of the conflicts in the book being a result of characters just not communicating; that's a pretty common theme that just thoroughly irritates me. Two of the main characters, Sam and Sadie, were frequently selfish/self-centered, and it just got tiresome after awhile.

I did not expect much of this book since I am, by no means, a gamer. But to my surprise, this is going to be one of my favorite releases of 2022, by far. The story starts tragically at a hospital where young Sadie has to visit her sister Alice. While her mom tends to her sister, she ends up meeting a little boy her age. They play together video game. This random encounter leads to a friendship for life.
This book was deep, all characters well so well developed with their qualities and flaws, and story talks about how the outcome of life traumas (in your childhood as well as adult life) can alter your personality, perception of self and others, and it taught me yo never rush; let life take its course. Time is on our side. Time is needed to heal mental wouldst, just like the physical ones.

A marvelous story of love and friendship. I am completely in love with Sam, Sadie and Marx. And yes, this book confirmed what I already told myself in the past; that life is like a video game. It really is.

A big nod to the author, who I look forward to know more by reading more books of hers. She is so talented! Her writing is exquisite and her style poetic yet intellectual, just like I like it.

Thank you Net Galley and the publisher for this e-ARC in exchange of my honest opinion.

This is a complex, incredible book and there’s a reason everyone is talking about it and reading it right now.

Sam and Sadie meet as adolescents, brought together by circumstance, and develop an intense friendship before not speaking for six years. Reunited in Boston, they begin careers as game developers (in the early 2000s) and their relationships and lives evolve and change and couple and decouple in ways that are just incredible and moving. I am not a gamer, but I was so invested in this story and how the making of games is really about collaboration, art, and world building - all while the world builders are navigating their complicated relationships with their own selves, each other, and others. The book was often surprising, lovely, poignant, and introspective. I really loved it.

As an aside, Zevin’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac was one of my favorite books as a teenager and I have loved reading her adult fiction since then, over the years.

Read this book.

Thank you to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for a copy via NetGalley. I also bought my own because this book is worth it.

I would have given this book 5 stars, but the ending wasn't it for me. It felt a little rushed, which was a bummer because everything else about this book was utter perfection. I loved the intricate storyline and the dynamics between the characters. It was fun and engaging. The NPC part broke me, though. It was so so heartbreaking. The narrator really did a great job on this as well. Can highly recommend this book!