This book was simply delightful. As someone who is not a big video game fan, I was a bit nervous jumping into this! But Sadie and Sam were so deeply complex, intelligent, and layered that I couldn’t help but be drawn in. I am super grateful for the opportunity to read this. Sadie’s dark, twisted relationship with Dov, and the tragedies Sam has experienced are contrasted with the childlike joy of gaming and the promise of infinite tomorrows. Very moving! It was also cool to see the characters enjoy building off each others’ ideas while creating games. I would recommend this to even non-gamers.

An emotional, sweeping story with characters that feel as real as you or me, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow has planted in my brain, and I won’t soon forget it.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

MV Rating: 7/10
•Two friends reconnect over a love of gaming after falling out years before, and proceed to build a new game. Their feelings for each other are a different depth of love, and their friendship is one that weathers a lot.
• the book spans the development the game, and through years following as the two grow together and apart in so many ways.
•The characters are written with both emotional depth and beautiful detail - I could easily see these characters in my head as real people.
•As someone who knows nothing of gaming, the detail surrounding programming/coding/gaming in general was hard for me to follow sometimes, but it contrasted well with the more emotionally driven character descriptions.
•I could see this being a hit for fans of “Fates and Furies” or “The Night Circus”, or any deeply detailed fiction novel!

What a weird, beautiful little journey this was. I’m going to miss the characters so much. And now I just want to replay all the video games from my childhood like Oregon Trail and Harvest Moon. This book was so different and surprisingly deep. This is a book that stays with you.

I have always wondered what it felt like to live in this world when you have the ability to build one constantly stinging the ends of your fingertips. Video games have always interested me, not even to play them, but how they are made and brought together. The story they tell. Sam and Sadie created games that told their love story. I feel like you very rarely get stories about this kind of love, but this love is so incredibly important to me.

Gabrielle Zevin has a way of creating sentences that feel familiar - thoughts and emotions you have experienced your entire life put into words, strung together in a simple but completely fresh way. It feels like a unique skill to pack so much into words that feel so … regular. There were so many parts to this book that were moving and relatable and intricate. I landed on a 4 ⭐️ because it was relatively slow and lost me a little bit towards the middle BUT the end got me back.
Sometimes there are books that you are just happy to have experienced. I am so glad I read this

This is a beautifully written novel about two friends, Sam and Sadie and their friendship. They met at a hospital when they are kids and the book spans over 30 years with POV told from both of them. They are video game designers and although there is a lot of gaming in this story, it was easy to follow for a non gamer. The characters are interesting and have depth to them. Thank you NetGalley for this advanced reader copy.

A unique look at friendship. The gaming aspect made me feel like a child again. The language used is a bit too much for me. The author could have written a bit more simply for the reader. However, I still found it to be worth the read, because I was invested in the friendship.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is very highly recommended literary fiction and a gamer's uncommon love story that spans thirty years. This is a novel written for the generation who grew up gaming that can be appreciated by anyone who enjoys excellent literary fiction.

Sam was in his junior year at Harvard when he saw and called out to Sadie. Sam Masur hadn't seen Sadie Green since 1986 when they were 12 and 11. They met at a children’s hospital where Sadie's sister was recovering from cancer and Sam was undergoing surgeries to repair a badly injured foot. Their bond and friendship started when they started playing games together. Then they had a falling out but they both intensely felt the loss of their friendship. Now, meeting again as young adults, they reconnect and become creative partners, collaborating on the design of a video game. Marx, Sam's roommate and friend helps facilitate their work as does Dov, a game designer, lover, and professor of Sadie's. Before either of them graduate from college, they have created their first game, Ichigo, which becomes a blockbuster.

The narrative alternates between the point-of-view of Sam and Sadie, allowing you to experience the inner thoughts of two of the most fully realized characters I've encountered in a long time. Sam and Sadie live in their heads, are deeply flawed, and make many assumptions about the thoughts and motives of the other person. Over the thirty years the plot covers their friendship, grief, arguments, disabilities, fame, resentments, deceit, tragedies, and creative processes. Each character is not always likable, perhaps with the exception of Marx, but always portrayed in a realistic manner.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is truly an epic, brilliant, remarkable novel and a love story to a generation and to the creative process itself. Additionally the well-plotted narrative tells an engrossing story that will hold your attention throughout. I'm not a gamer, but have some insight and understanding of games and the work, collaboration, and determination required to make them. Zevin has made this is an intricate part of her exceptional novel while also delving deep into Sam and Sadie's inner thoughts and personal experiences.

This is an epic novel that will likely become a classic depiction of it's characters but also as a reflection of a generation. Even if you are not a gamer, this is literary fiction at it's finest.

Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Knopf Doubleday via NetGalley.
The review will be published on Barnes & Noble, Google Books, Edelweiss, and Amazon.

One of the best reads of the year!

I fell in love with this book and I can't wait to purchase a copy so I can reread it.

Sam, Sadie, and Marx are complex, heartfelt, honest characters and their relationships are relatable. As a gamer, the references to classic games made my heart happy. The way that the author uses gaming to enhance the story was genius.

I highly recommend this read to both gamers and non-gamers.

Be right back, going to start creating video games. As someone who plays the occasional video game but not fully immersed in the lifestyle I still found this book incredibly relatable and intriguing. We follow fellow video game enthusiasts Sam Masur and Sadie Green as they navigate life, love, friendship, partnerships, and everything in between. We learn so much from these two about how life can get in the way of friendships and perception is not always reality.

I would definitely recommend people checking out Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Even if you do not know much about video games.

Thank you for the ARC! It was a pleasure to read.

Thank you, Knopf and NetGalley for the ARC. A truly five-star read. Transportive and transformative. I LOVE that this is a love story of friendship. Recommending to every one I know.

I absolutely loved this book. First, we need to talk about how gorgeous the cover is! Second, the words in between are just as beautiful. This story is a masterpiece. I loved the writing style and the nonlinear timeline. I simultaneously wanted to read this as fast as I could while wanting to read it as slow as I could so I could savor it. I loved The Storied Life of AJ Fikry so I was really excited when I first heard of this book. I didn't really know how I was going to like this one though because I'm not a huge video game person. But, that didn't matter at all. Also, while this story centers around video game creators, it also has a ton of art and literature references which I loved. Zevin masterfully weaves together a story that makes these characters feel like friends. It reminded me a lot of Taylor Jenkins Reid books. The characters feel so realistic that I found myself wanting to google them and the video games and the events described in the story. And then I remembered this is fiction. It's beautiful and haunting and devastating and hopeful all at once. It's a wonderful story about friendship and love, touching on what it is to be a human in this world as well as what it is to be a woman in this world. I already want to reread it. Definitely making it into one of my favorite books of this year.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me a copy of this book for review. Now I am a huge fan of Ready Player One so I was kinda hoping this book was going to be similar in that situation using gaming in the story but this one was quite the opposite. This one was creative and unique but wasnt quite up my alley that I was hoping for to come out of reading this one. It was cool learning about the two main characters in this and how they created their own game but maybe I felt it was too much? I dont know. The pacing was a bit slow so that didn't help too for me to get through the story quicker. But if your a reader and like books about gaming, creating games, friendship and a slow burn then this book would be a good choice for you.

I dont know if words can do justice over how amazing this book was. It was AN ABSOLUTE JOY TO READ. Im so sorry to have screamed that. I think this book is going down as my favorite book of 2022. I am in love with Sam, Sadie and Marx. Also there were so many quotable moments and phrases that I want to freeze in time! It was perfection!
I loved all the gaming references and pop culture references, they really got me excited and breathed life into this world. The whole thing reads so real, that I sometimes forgot I was reading!
I already ordered not one but 2 physical copies right after I was done reading this. Because YES, I love it that much. One for my favorite shelf and one to gift to a friend who needs these characters in their life.
I will be revisiting this world again and again and again for sure.

Thank you so much Netgalley for this opportunity to read my new favorite book!

Sadie and Sam, Sam and Sadie. Childhood friends who drifted apart only to be reconnected years later through their love for video gaming.

Not going to lie, I didn't understand every single technical aspect about gaming that was mentioned in this book, however, I did enjoy the nostalgia of it. Set in the 90s all the mentions of retro games was great.
Set on the challenges and meaning of friendship, heartbreak, expectations, love, loss and much more. If we were to take the gaming aspect away, this book is about 2 people who we follow as they navigate through life. So all in all, you don't need to be a gaming enthusiast to be able to dive into this read. It's just something that fuels Sadie and Sam. This read is far more greater and deeper than what it seems to be.
This book is my first read by Gabrielle Zevin and I really enjoyed it.

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf for my digital arc.

I love everything about this. There is so much about love and friendship, pain and loss, racism and sexism. All of it with the backdrop of the gaming world. The metaphors are beautiful. I do not play video games, but I understood how these characters felt every step of the way. Also, the NPC chapter? It's fantastic. So many feelings. This will definitely be one of my favorites for this year.

This is a story about gaming, which I know absolutely nothing about, but more than that this is a story about friendship, hardship, disability, lust, hurt, love, grief and loss.
This book is moving, heartfelt and emotional with a huge highlight on gaming.
Even though I am not a gamer and cannot relate to those references within the book, I truly enjoyed the 90's and 2000's references and the overall story line which is way more than gaming.
Sam and Sadie are so real I feel like I want to go play some games and run into them in their created worlds. The emotions are heartfelt and real throughout this book.
Wish it ended differently but I enjoyed the ride.

A unique story of platonic love and video games are at the heart of it. However you don't need to be a video game lover to appreciate this story

Wowowowowowow.

This book changed me in such a good way. I love it. I want to reread it already. As a teenager, I despised video games. My knowledge of them was limited to the friends I had who were “addicted” to them, and I was very much in the camp of “violent video games are making us violent.” I have long since vacated the second camp, but I still believed that video games were for fighting, which I had no interest in.

Well, turns out not all video games are Halo and Madden, and that many of them are ART in the same way that books and movies are art. I’m going to use this review as my public apology for not understanding that until now.

And my favorite thing about it is that this is a platonic love story. Sam and Sadie 4Evr. And if I make a teddy bear with the likeness of Marx, don’t be surprised. This book is messy and real and my current book of the year. I love love loved it. 5/5, Gabrielle. Never stop writing!

I absolutely loved this unique platonic love story. You don't need to love and understand video games to adore these characters.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Randomhouse for an advanced copy of this novel. All opinions are my own.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is unlike anything else I've read. It is a literary fiction triumph that explores loss, friendship, gaming, art, and time. I don't play video games and while I might have understood more references if I did, this book was still understandable and relatable. There were also many pop culture references.

This novel follows the friendship of Sam and Sadie over 3 decades that encompasses several tragedies. Sam and Sadie both love to game and this story examines their trajectories from childhood to adulthood. There are many successes, failures, and average days.

Overall this a very well written and thought provoking novel.