This is the review I will post on Amazon when reviews are allowed. Thanks so much for the opportunity to read it early!!!!

Such a great read!!! Brilliant, sad, uplifting, imaginative, incredibly absorbing … only a few of the descriptions that immediately come to mind!

This novel is many things, and all of those things are done beautifully. It is a modern coming-of-age story in the burgeoning world of technology and gaming, a fascinating glimpse into the world of Creatives, where hope and despair cycle continuously throughout each page. Though very much a love story, it transcends the tired tropes of sex/drugs/entropy to showcase the human need for connection, approval and forgiveness with those we love.

Each character is perfectly formed and trustworthy in a way that few novelists have the chops to carry off. Beautifully written, the words themselves and they way Zevin chose to combine them fascinated me at times. Endings more than anything else often form my final opinion about a book — I did not want this story to end, but found myself delighted with the pitch-perfect final chapter.

Don’t pass on this book - it is as close to perfect as a novel gets!

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is a must-read. I loved this book and I hated this book. I loved the characters, the storyline, the writing. I hated one major thing that happened. But I hated it because I loved the characters and felt like they were my friends, too.

Zevin tells the story of Sam and Sadie, two friends who meet in the hospital while children. Sam is there to have many surgeries to repair his shattered foot. Sadie is there because her sister has leukemia. They develop a fast friendship, forged over video games. Their friendship thrives until it doesn't. Coincidentally, they both end up in Boston for college (Harvard for Sam, MIT for Sadie). Coincidentally again, they run into each other a T station in Boston. Sadie gives Sam a disk with a video game she designed on it. Sam plays it and their lives change.

Sam, Sadie and Marx, Sam's roommate and surrogate big brother, start a video game design company over the summer. We follow them as they create the game, through the ups and downs of video game design and starting a company.

This is not a book about video game design. Well, it is, but it is ultimately a book about friendship, family and how our choices affect those we love. There was some technical information strewn throughout the book, but it did not detract from the storytelling. At times, I didn't even realize I was reading about video game design.

Zevin does a masterful job of creating these characters. From the beginning of the book, I was engaged in the lives of Sam and Sadie, and eventually Marx. I got angry with them when they made stupid choices. I cheered for them when they succeeded and commiserated with them when they failed. Zevin drew me into their lives seamlessly. Life is complicated. And so are Zevin's characters. Ultimately, the characters stayed with me for days after finishing their story.

Thank you to #NetGalley for an ARC of #TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow

While I'm not a "gamer", this did not affect my love for this book whatsoever! This is a lovely story about friendship, love, and not giving up on your passions. I really enjoyed following the characters throughout the ups and downs of their life and love for each other. Great book!

This just might be my favorite book of 2022.

It spans decades of a complicated friendship between two ambitious people: it follows their childhoods, their partnership as they build their game company, and all of their ups and downs. Everyone is flawed, making the characters feel real and relatable.

You don’t have to love video games to love this book. I’m not a gamer, but Sam and Sadie so genuinely love and are excited about games that it was fun to see.

The writing is my favorite kind of writing: it’s crisp and flows well and is beautiful and interesting without being flowery or overwrought. There were also lots of lovely literary references.

Along the way, the book seamlessly explores loss, racism and cultural appropriation, living with a disability, sexism, abuse, suicide, and gun violence.

<I>Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf!</i>

I did not think that Zevin could do better than Aj Fikry, but this amazing thrilling novel is one of my best of the year.

Ooooof! This novel hit me so hard. A novel about video game writers that goes deep into the weeds sounds like the complete opposite of something I’d enjoy, but this fabulous novel grabbed hold of me and didn’t let go. Loved the different styles, voices, and POVs here. Beautifully told.

I am just SO TORN on this book. There are some things I loved about it that I think most people probably won’t care as much about - the video games, the locations, the Shakespeare references. But the relationships drove me crazy!!! My biggest pet peeve in books is when conflict stems from the main characters not just TALKING to each other and that’s what 95% of the conflict in this book was. I loved it. And I hated it. And I can’t stop thinking about it.

This is a book that will stick with me for a while, and is one I can’t wait to discuss with friends - it would make a great book club pick. Like many reviews mention, this book is hard to describe, it is at times heavy, complex and layered. A story of friendship, love and play, but also a story about grief, tragedy and challenges. There were times I despised all of the characters, and times when I loved them all. This book is lengthy, but worth the reading investment.

Sensitive readers, content warnings apply.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance reading copy. Featured in Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Summer Reading Guide, which is what originally made me also me to add it to my TBR.

2.5/5 stars. I’m not sure what exactly I was expecting from this book, but it wasn’t quite this. I was thinking I’d be experiencing a bit more fantastical realm things and being in video games or something, and while there is a small bit of that, it was mostly about a group of friends who unendingly misunderstand one another and don’t clarify stuff so they just stew in being mad for YEARS until one day they’re best friends again. I found it all a bit tedious and a bit boring, and so so so so long. I did read it all, and was hoping the characters would grow on me a bit more, but I never ended up really liking any of them. On the whole, not really my kind of book.

Do you know when you read something that hits you so hard that you just want to live in the world of that book a little longer when you're done? Like you refuse to say goodbye to those characters? Well, let me tell you, this book did that to me. And I was an emotional wreck. My husband had to calm me down and remind me that Sam isn't real. But can't I just give Sam a freaking hug!?

If it's not already clear, I *adored* this book. It was so smart, so deep, so beautiful. I was teary eyed through the entire story and still feel like I know these characters personally.

This one is honestly hard to describe. Just know it's filled with moments both sweet and heartbreaking, It offers so much representation. It's just such a special book. I dare you not to love it.

all the hype about TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW is real.
This is a story of friendship and love, of life and journeys, and videogames.
Truly, if you read one book this summer, TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW should be it.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Release Date: 7/5/22

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow tells the story of a livelong friendship between Sadie Green and Sam Masur. We follow the two from ages 11/12 to their late thirties as they go through phases of their relationships from childhood friends to not speaking for 6 years to collaborators on video game projects to not speaking again. The two friends share between themselves wins and losses, tremendous grief, and undeniable love.

Words cannot describe how much I loved this book! This was a book that I had a very difficult time putting down, it was so good! The writing was amazing! The characters were phenomenal! I was emotionally destroyed in more than a few parts (don't want to put a spoiler in here but you'll know it when you get to them). It's a touching story of love and heartache and just growing up and trying to figure life and yourself out.

Thank you to @netgalley and Knopf Double Day publishing for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a novel of love, loss, friendship, forgiveness, and video games. It tells the story of Sam and Sadie who meet in a hospital when they are young and bond over playing video games. On the surface it seems like a story focused on video games, but, oh, is it so much more. If you aren't a gamer (I am not) don't let that deter you from reading this book. It spans several decades and iterations of Sam and Sadie's relationship. You'll have to read to find out what happens as they navigate the world of gaming; no spoilers here. I applaud Zevin for taking this reader into a world I really knew nothing about and giving me an understanding of the gaming world. I did, however, not find that aspect of the book as enjoyable as the relationship between Sam, Sadie and, eventually Marx. Highly recommend for it's fresh take on a love story. Thank you netgalley for this ARC.

An intoxicating and wholly unexpected epic of love, art, belonging, betrayal, and… video games. This is the story of Sam and Sadie, two childhood friends who meet in a hospital game room in 1986. They come from completely different worlds, but bond immediately over video games. Eight years later, as students at separate Boston colleges, the pair reunites and bootstrap a Tempest-inspired video game that becomes an unexpected blockbuster, cementing their future as game designers but bringing upheaval into their personal lives. I don’t have much interest in video games but I adored this book, which is ultimately about creativity and ambition, astonishing success and what comes after, and the inevitable hurts and disappointments of a life-defining friendship. It’s a stirring meditation on the intrinsic hopefulness of games, and what they might mean for us all. Content warnings apply.

Wow, this book was stunning. I was pulled in right from the start, and didn't lose interest at any point. It's absolutely gorgeous, about so many different things, and I'd recommend it to anyone.

I don't spoil anything directly, but if you're worried about spoilers, you might want to skip the next three paragraphs. The final three paragraphs don't have any spoilers.

A weird thing about my experience of reading this book was that by the time I was halfway through, it felt like I'd read an entire book--like maybe it should be done already. And I want to be clear I don't mean that in a bad way, like the book felt too long or had poor pacing. It just felt like some books could have ended it there, and been interesting and relatively satisfying overall.

But because I knew I was only halfway through, I started getting worried: yes, this book had complicated relationships, and things that frustrated me, and heartbreaking tragedies. But what if something even worse was going to happen? What if this book was actually devastating, and I just didn't know it yet?

Reader, this book was devastating. My intuition was right, but I had no idea what was going to happen until it was too late. I sobbed through a large section of this book, and was teary-eyed through the whole rest of it, all the way until the end. I already liked this book, and felt it was emotionally deep and moving, but then it just absolutely gutted me.

This book was moving in so many ways. Emotionally, the characters and their relationships are so rich and real and complicated and messy. No one is perfectly likable all the time, and you're not on one character's side the whole way through. But also creatively, this book was so inspiring. I don't play a lot of video games, and know very little about making them, but I do write poetry. At one point I had to stop writing to frantically write down an idea--I'd been waiting for a breakthrough epiphany about something for over a year, and this book finally helped me crack it open, at least a little.

The quotes I pulled from this book to save for later are gorgeous, and the writing is superb. I love the way the book plays with time, and how the future is so casually and distressingly referenced. In a way, it lulled me into thinking I knew what was coming, without ever revealing the worst part.

I tore my way through this book, and basically spent a whole weekend in this world. I'm so grateful to Netgalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for the chance to read and review this ARC.

This book is brilliant, imaginative, complicated, and memorable. So much of it is about video games, which I have limited interest in, yet I was captivated from the first page. Sadie and Sam are video game developers and the book follows their lives over 30 years. It’s not a romance, but it is about love.

I was originally put off from this book because I thought it would be too intellectual for me. And while I did have to look up several words, and a lot of the video game speak went over my head, I was invested in these characters. The storytelling is incredible. All of the characters are well developed, even (especially) the side characters. This is a book that I'll think of often.

This book was excellent. I devoured it as quickly as real life allowed. It was beautifully written, the characters were so fleshed out and well developed even when unlikeable (Sadie!), and I was so engaged despite the plot revolving around video games and me not being a gamer. It was merely a plot device but in no way detracted from my ability to follow, be pulled in, process and enjoy. I don’t really know how to articulate what the book meant to me but I feel impacted by this book, and I know the characters will stay with me forever. That’s how well they were written. What a beautiful love story chronicling platonic love at it’s most poignant.

I loved Gabrielle Zevin’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and Elsewhere, and only recently discovered that she writes adult fiction too, which prompted me to read this book. The plot is so unique, it is difficult to discuss without spoiling. At its core this is a book about friendship and video games, although video game knowledge is not necessary to enjoy it. Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital as children, and have a long, complicated friendship as they build a company together. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” portrays the tension of friendship better than any other book I have read. Some readers might not like the writing style - I think it keeps the book interesting to switch between perspectives and formats. I think the tone and writing style are very similar to Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Thanks to Knopf Doubleday and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

" To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt."

A touching novel about love, grief, and of course games. I found Zevin's prose delightful, descriptive and emotional but not overly tedious, the novel was over 400 pages but never felt like a slog. Sam and Sadie were well crafted characters, flawed individuals who often played their cards close to their chest brought together by a shared love of games. I enjoyed the gaming references, but this is first and foremost a character driven novel and you can definitely enjoy as a non-gamer.

This was not the kind of book I usually read. But the promise of a love story, though not one I've ever read before, intrigued me.

I absolutely adored the book. The writing was brilliant, the characters well-wrought and imperfect, flawed and young, selfish and vulnerable and human. As in love, there is never a 'right' or 'wrong' when trying to connect with others. There is only the option to be our true selves with others and work to become better people, preferably inspired by those with whom we spend our days. Sam and Sadie may not have set out to do that, but they made each other better, at so many things.

The video game references felt familiar, and the designing details gave a texture to the book that I enjoyed. The book was many stories within a story, with lustrous language and all the pain and joy of being human and finding one's way, one's people and one's purpose. I've already pre-ordered copies for friends and family who I know will love it as well, and am looking forward to reading Gabrielle Zevin's other novels.

Thank you to NetGalley for the early copy.