I really enjoyed this book and I loved how well the writing just flowed. The writing was really well done. The characters were so easy to fall in love with.

Several people have told me that you'd like this novel even if you didn't play video games. While I think that is true, I'm not a gamer and I did enjoy the novel, I think it's real audience is with gamers. It's a love letter to games that I appreciated it, but felt like I couldn't fully enjoy it as someone outside the community. If you're a gamer or you know someone who is, I think you would really really love this book. If you aren't, you might still enjoy it, I did, but go in knowing that you'll sometimes feel like an outsider.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a charming novel about Sam, Sadie, and Marx through the course of their lives from childhood to adulthood. Sam and Sadie initially meet at the hospital while Sam is recovering from a car accident and Sadie's sister is undergoing cancer treatment. Through their time together they play games to pass the time. While Sam and Sadie have an unfortunate falling out, they are reunited years later while attending college. The rest of the novel follows Sam and Marx, roommates/friends, and Sadie as they make their first video game Ichigo together and grow to create Unfair Games together.

As a casual gamer, I did not realize the complexities of the gaming world or the challenges that would take place in creating games spanning from the 90s to the more modern day. However, that did not take away from my enjoyment of the book at all. The characters are fully fleshed out people with faults and shortcomings that make them charming and, at times, exasperating. My favorite character was Marx - so likeable and the peacekeeper between the more volatile personalities of Sam and Sadie. Even the secondary characters of Dong Hyun and Bong Cha (Sam's grandparents) are delightful.

The novel does go back and forth in time and also jumps to be "inside" the game worlds that Unfair Games have created, which can be disorienting at times. The jargon associated with the building of games was a bit lost on me, but overall this story is endearing due to the characters and watching their lives play out.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow follows Sadie and Sam through almost thirty years of friendship, collaboration, and heartbreak. After meeting as children and reuniting in college, Sadie and Sam create a video game together and end up forming a gaming company. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow follows their personal and professional successes and moments of devastation.

This is an incredible book that to me is ultimately about love, in its many facets. I found myself rooting for both Sadie and Sam, although not necessarily in a traditional "love story" sense. I was invested in the supporting characters: Marx, Dov, Zoe, etc. Zevin wrote these characters with a depth and compassion one rarely sees. This is a book that will stick with me for awhile as I continue to unravel the characters and themes that are so expertly woven through this story.

Solid 4 stars. This beautifully written book spans across a friendship of two lonely teenagers and their love of video games. Written from both points of view, of their ups and downs over the years in not only their relationships, but their relationships with others.

Although I am not personally a gamer, I loved Zevin's descriptions of their gaming world and how they created their games over the years.

This was a hard book to put down!

Thank you NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for this Arc.

I loved this book, loved all about it. It hurt my feeling, it made me smile and it make me cry! This book about games and game design, brought these two people in my life and that's where they will stay. Now that I know them, that I watched them grow, I'll forever be invested.

This is a beautiful story about love and friendship, about depression and disability, about growing pains and games and all in between. Wonderfully paced, packed with emotion, written in two POV; Sam and Sadie, it will take you through their story and lay it all out for you, the vulnerable, the feeling, the shame, the love, the desire and need.

I hope you read it, it will be worth it!

If you like male-female friendship stories, work/co-worker dynamics, enjoy reading about young adulthood in the 1990s-early 2000s, and appreciate video game culture, this book may be for you. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is highly character-driven, slower-paced, and quite unique. I haven’t read anything similar, which I appreciate. However, my main criticism is how pretentious the writing is at times. In fact, I considered DNFing on a few occasions. I’m glad I stuck it out, because the ending is excellent. If this book sounds interesting to you, it’s definitely worth a try! I’m glad I read it. Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC.

First let me thank #netgalley and #knopf for this ARC - comments are strictly my own!

4.5 stars rounded up! This is the newest offering from the terrific award winning author of The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, a book I loved. And this one is equally as impressive.

I enjoy a book that follows the course of a character's life over a number of years - this story spans about 30 years of friendship. And the best part is that they fall in and out of friendship, in and out of love, speaking to each other / ignoring each other. Just like real people. These people all felt truly authentic and I liked every character (even Dov) and what they brought to each other's lives.

I appreciated the inside view to video gaming and developing - personally I don't know anything about it but found the parts about gaming fascinating. I really like books that teach me about something without teaching me!

This book is one of the ones where characters will stick with you and draw you back to the story till it's done. And it's got a great ending. So highly recommended.

Can we pause for a moment to admire this beautiful cover? It’s breathtaking and so is the story of Sam and Sadie in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin!!

I loved every bit of this book and was lucky to get a complimentary audiobook, digital galley along with BOTM version! Narrater Jennifer Kim and Julian Cihi have narrated so beautifully, you can keep listening to their soothing voices forever!

What I loved most about this book is the profound trust and unequivocal love between Sam and Sadie! If you haven’t yet please pick up a copy of this novel, you’ll not regret it a bit! I am looking forward to re read this book soon!

Thank you Libro.fm, PRHAudio for the complimentary audiobook and NetGalley for the digital galley!

I’m not a video game fanatic by any means, but I have definitely played my fair share of video games growing up. Even though nowadays, I don’t play video games as much as I used to, I still play enough to keep myself informed about the various gaming trends out there, mostly due to my nephew being an avid gamer. Overall, I would consider my interest in gaming-related stuff to be moderate, so the fact that Gabrielle Zevin’s newest book is about gaming, by itself, wouldn’t necessarily make this a “must-read” for me. Rather, what attracted me to this book were the following (in no particular order): 1) the timespan, which covered most of the 1990s through contemporary times, some of which mirrors the time period of my youth (though admittedly, the 1980s was a huge part of that as well); 2) the setting, with a large part of the story taking place in Los Angeles, which is where I grew up (and where I still live); 3) the intricately complex premise as described in the plot summary, which essentially promised that this story would be about much more than just gaming (which was indeed true!) and that it would be different from anything I’ve read before (also true!); 4) I’m a sucker for nostalgia and it was pretty obvious, even before reading this book, that there would be plenty if that throughout the story; 5) this is by the same author who wrote The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, which is one of my favorite books of all time. In the end, what ultimately drew me in and kept me reading were all of the above, yes, but also, the characters, who were all so realistically rendered — it was hard not to empathize with Sam and Sadie and, given all they go through, root for them even during those times when they made frustratingly horrible decisions. Oh and of course, there’s Marx, who plays such a critical role in both Sam’s and Sadie’s lives — these three characters, their trials and tribulations, form the heart of the story, though if I were to choose a favorite character, it would probably be Sam’s grandfather Dong Hyun, whom I adored despite his brief appearances throughout the story.

In addition to the brilliant writing as well as the wonderfully drawn characters, another aspect that makes this book stand out is its unique structure — there are segments that switch between different points of views and perspective, as well as scenes that take place in the gaming world and also in the real world. While it was a bit difficult to keep up with at times, the journey to the end was well worth he effort, in my opinion. This is one of those books that needs to be experienced to be effective, which is why I’m keeping my review deliberately short as well as vague. This is also a book that’s very hard to categorize, as there is a little bit of everything in here — there are aspects of multiple genres in here, from historical to contemporary to romance (though as the premise suggests, this is not a typical love story), with subtle hints of science fiction and nonfiction elements sprinkled in throughout. There is humor and warmth in the story, but there is also tragedy and heartbreak — though most impressive for me in terms of the structure is Zevin’s ability to incorporate such a wide range of current affairs and social issues into the story, but in a way that didn’t feel contrived or overwhelming. I felt that the story overall was way more complex than her previous works, plus the emotional elements were also well done, though for me, this one was a bit less poignant and resonant than The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, in my opinion at least (that book made me cry multiple times as I was reading it!).

While you don’t need to be a gamer to enjoy this one, I do feel that having some familiarity with the gaming world does make a difference in that it enhances the reading experience (at least that’s what it did for me). I loved the bit about the trick for getting Mario on top of the flag, (where was this tip 30 years ago when I was obsessed with playing Super Mario Bros? LOL!) as well as the various other references to games that I was familiar with (whether through playing those games myself at some point or hearing my nephew and his cousins / friends talk about them). Given everything that has gone on the past couple years, I was definitely happy getting the chance to relive those fun, nostalgic moments of childhood, even if only for a short while! Even if you’re not into gaming, I still highly recommend reading this one, as the story on its own goes deep — though some parts do take a little bit of patience to get through, but to me, the journey was worth it in the end.

Received ARC from Knopf Publishing via NetGalley.

I wanted to love this boom more than I did, but alas, it wasn’t quite my cup of tea. It felt like I was reading the book for longer than the 3 days it actually took. There were parts that dragged on and where I found the writing style to be odd.

I adored the concept and all the throw-backs to Oregon Trail and other 80’s/90’s memorabilia. The characters were complex and mundane and infuriating and brilliant. The development of the characters and the story line was done well. There are heavy topics covered, which was a bit unexpected based on the synopsis.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of the book.

Five stars for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. This epic book drew me in immediately and kept me turning pages until the end. I loved the richly developed characters. A tale of relationships, family, love and ambitions evolving over time, this story has it all. I was sad to come to the end! Excellent book!

I was provided a free copy of this from @netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
This is a love story to friendship, creativity, play, and gaming! It had real, flawed, amazing characters that I wanted to know more and more about. Sadie and Sam met as kids and bonded over their love of video games! Later in life, they reconnect and decide to create their own game, with the help of Marx. But don't worry, if you aren't a fan of video games, you can still appreciate this book.
Ultimately it is a beautiful story of how friendships get you through life, and how we can mess those relationships up, and hopefully fix them again. There are a lot of struggles Sam, Sadie, and Marx go through, and as flawed realistic characters they don't always make the right choices, but even still it is a hopeful and beautiful depiction of friendship and love.
I was fully invested in these characters lives!
Luckily for you it was released yesterday and you can go ahead and grab it straight away!

I really enjoyed this book! Even though I didn't play video games much growing up, I was filled with a sense of nostalgia. I was nervous that I would find the topic and focus of this book to be either boring or inaccessible, but I had heard so many positive reviews that I wanted to try it anyway. I'm so glad I did! I didn't find the plot points of this book to be inaccessible or boring at all - in fact, they humanized the game creation process and gave me a lot more respect and reverence for the field. Overall, I found the book to be reminiscent of a John Green vibe in all the best ways. I really hope the book is made into a movie!

The main characters in the book, Sam and Sadie, are both deeply flawed, prideful humans who get in their own way a lot. But they're also wonderfully creative, intelligent, and loyal. Getting to know them (and Marx) throughout the course of the novel was frustrating at times due to their stubbornness, but was largely a beautiful experience. I also really loved the LGBT+ inclusion that didn't feel like it was being shouted from the rooftops for credit; it was simply there, as it should be. I could go on and on about the trio, but I'll just spare everyone and say it will be a long time before I forget them.

I know the book isn’t really marketed as a coming-of-age, but it kind of read that way to me. The reader gets to grow up with Sam, Sadie, and Marx, and our hearts get broken with them when unspeakable tragedy strikes. This book is undoubtedly entertaining, and it somehow manages to walk the line of being heartwarming while also being incredibly devastating at times. Some sections of the book had me enjoying some simple nostalgia, others felt like a cozy blanket, and then others ripped my heart out (I’m looking at you, sections 7 through 9). *insert crying face here* And the ending was REALISTIC rather than taking the tempting way out of making the ending exactly what the reader hoped for during the first 50% of the book! This is one I'll recommend to most people for months to come.

This book was enchanting. It was a lovely, and at some times heartbreaking, tale of the creation of video games. The characters felt as if I knew them and I'll miss them. The games they made seemed like ones I would want to play.

Even though I'm not a gamer, I loved this book. From the first page, I knew I was in the hands of a master, so I relaxed and went with it. The characters were wonderful, I loved the plot, and I can hardly wait to read another book by this author. It is my pleasure to recommend this book to anyone who enjoys excellent fiction.

On a bitterly cold day, Sam Masur runs into Sadie Green on a train platform and they renew their childhood friendship bonding over video games. Together, they create Ichigo, a blockbuster game that changes their lives. Over the next three decades, their friendship is tested as their success leads them to money, fame, love, and betrayal.

More a heartrending story about friendship than video games, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, is one of the best books I've read recently, and I can't recommend it enough. I read it in one sitting, staying up until 3 am because I could not put it down. Although there are plenty of video game references, the story wasn't overwhelming nerdy and the complexity of the character development particularly stood out to me. A brilliant read that I will be raving about for years to come.

A great piece of literary fiction that is ultimately about love, friendships, and the journey of life. Gabrielle Zevin provides a strong, character-driven storyline that is complicated, emotionally jarring, and introspective. The storytelling is clever and while the setting is embedded in the world of gaming, it is not about gaming. Great read!

Thank you to #Netgalley for the ARC

Having seen so many great reviews on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow I knew when I saw it on NetGalley I had to read it. Thank you to the NG team for sending me an ARC of this book to review. These thoughts are my own and not bias in any way shape or form.

I put off reading this book a while, I actually was going to read it early June but my best friend passed away suddenly and in honesty I wasn't sure I could read a book about a strong friendship. I left it a while and picked this up a few days ago, reading it slowly. Absorbing it. I actually think my best friend (Although not a gamer at all) would have enjoyed the relationships in this book and recommend it in his place of work (A book store).

The story is about the friendship, then working relationship of Sadie and Sam. From their early teens (12 years old onwards) to their late 30s. This story covers a lot and I was doing so great reading it and loving it till about 70% in when I knew what was going to happen... Then this book became hard for me. If you've read this book and are now seeing my review you will understand why.

Many say that you do not need to be a gamer to enjoy this book and I would agree. However I will say if you are around the 30-50 Age group and gamed from your child hood upwards, many of the games mentioned will appeal to you. At times this book has a thing of going off on a tangent or skipping/losing time and it became a little 'unsettling' I want to say. The pace was smooth but it made it bumpy. Also some times there was so much information and narration I was wondering why? It felt more like padding and wasn't needed. Just an opinion.

But over all, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow probably broke me a little. I won't say why as I don't give spoilers but I really felt Sam's pain probably more than Sadie's. If I'm honest, at times I really disliked Sadie and how judgemental she was towards Sam. But this book... It is something special. This was a solid 3.5 star read. Friendships like Sam and Sadie's don't come along often, trust me I know.

I'm not sure I can say anything new here. This book is magnificent and so unique. Everyone should read this!