I had such a great time with All Our Tomorrows and was very happy to be invited into the worlds of Gemma, Anna and Janet (+ their layers of anxieties).

As a young women, this book resonated the exact feeling I felt these characters were experiencing at their age and it was honestly an amazing reflection to see the similarities I think many young women could relate to.

If you also have a pit in your stomach about our world and how we’re going to survive the life in front of us, I would highly suggest diving into All Our Tomorrows.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a strange one for me. I started it during a difficult time, and I struggled to get into it, dragging it out for a while. I felt like nothing much happened until midway through the book – but that’s when everything changed. From the 50% mark, I couldn’t put it down. I loved how the characters’ stories unfolded, how they imploded, yet also brought them together. I especially loved their connections; Janet’s sister, Izzy, felt like the glue holding them all together. It was incredibly powerful.

Some quotes that I’ve highlighted:

“Luck doesn’t occur in the form of a person. It occurs in the patterns, the things that happen to you.”
“In that moment, Janet realised that she had finally stopped looking ahead to anything else. The present moment was enough, and in it, she was momentarily immortal.”
“She was everything and no one.”
“To Gemma, the encounter with those girls had felt like a beginning in the midst of all of these endings that she was reading about and living through.”
“She kept on writing about all her yesterdays, and all her tomorrows rushed in through the pages, gliding on swift, rustling wings.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC. This book will release from CLASH Books on February 25, 2025 in the US. However, I stopped reading at 17% due to concerns about the author, a white writer, voicing a Korean American character.

In All Our Tomorrows, Amy DeBellis dissects millennial and Gen Z culture through the lives of three young women navigating the complex realities of New York City in a near-future, hyper-capitalist world. Janet, an overworked online therapist; Anna, a retail worker and sugar baby seeking financial survival; and Gemma, a college student turned aspiring influencer, each confront their struggles with nihilism, isolation, and climate anxiety. DeBellis employs sharp critiques and dark humor to explore the intimate challenges of identity, privilege, and resilience in an era defined by economic instability and digital culture.

I stopped reading All Our Tomorrows at 17% because Amy DeBellis’s portrayal of Janet, a Korean American character, felt misaligned with my values around racial justice and representation. As a white author, DeBellis’s decision to voice a character with a specific racialized experience raised concerns about appropriation, particularly because Janet’s ethnicity seemed incidental to the story rather than thoughtfully integrated.

Janet’s ethnicity is revealed in a scene where her date, a tone-deaf white man, exotifies her background by asking where she’s *really* from, “like ancestrally.” While DeBellis’s critique of white privilege and microaggressions is evident, the scene risks reducing Janet’s racial identity to a narrative device for advancing this critique. If her ethnicity plays no significant role beyond this scene, it feels tokenizing and exploitative. If it reappears later, the risk grows that it could be mishandled in ways that amplify the problematic nature of this choice.

While I appreciate DeBellis’s incisive commentary on millennial struggles, her approach to Janet’s character felt at odds with my values. I’m not comfortable supporting a narrative that might perpetuate the very erasure or commodification of marginalized voices it aims to critique, particularly when those voices could be more authentically written by someone with lived experience.

Amy DeBellis can WRITE. She has more literary talent in her pinky finger than most of us could hope to have in our entire bodies. If I had been reading a physical copy of this book rather than an e-ARC, I fear every single page would have been highlighted and annotated. Yes, the writing is that good - and I say that as someone who is a stickler for prose, especially when it comes to literary fiction.

I was completely enamored with Anna, Janet, and Gemma, our three indelible protagonists. Multi-POV novels can be a tough sell for me, as I often find that one character gets the short end of the characterization stick (so to speak), but that is not at all the case in ALL OUR TOMORROWS. Each of these young women feel completely distinct from one another, be it in dialogue, inner monologue, or character arc. Every single chapter, I would finish it and think, "Oh yeah, she's totally my favorite of the three women!" And then in the next chapter, I would go, "Wait a second, no, SHE is my favorite for sure!" So on, so forth. In the end, I give Anna the slightest edge as my favorite character because I saw so much of myself in her that, at times, it was like looking in a mirror.

What I think will stick with me most about ALL OUR TOMORROWS is how seen it made me feel as a zillennial woman. It is a strange, strange time to be alive, and an even stranger time to be a woman in your twenties. The nihilism, the loneliness, the ever-shifting boundaries of my own identity, the constant feeling of being unmoored in a world that is always moving faster, always demanding more, and always leaving me behind... DeBellis gave life to those feelings in a way I never knew I needed.

Friends, if ALL OUR TOMORROWS is not on your TBR for 2025, it needs to be immediately. I could not recommend this more highly.

Much thanks to Amy DeBellis and CLASH Books for the ARC!

the plot was interesting enough but I couldn';t really get into the book, iI think more editing could really improve the book overall

A coming of age page turner with well developed characters. Thought provoking, moving and relatable. Bravo!

In this story you get to meet 3 totally different women, who lead different lives, but all live in New York. You are first introduced to Janet, who is a working online “therapist” and then you meet Anna, who is a paid escort and from Russia originally, and last by not least we meet Gemma, who is a university student from the UK.
Each women suffers minor live crises, and all have their share of disappointments and through this all they have an off-chance meeting that brings them all together.
I am giving this book 4 stars, ONLY because I as a reader was left wondering what happened to the three women..

All Our Tomorrows is a realistic future-ish(?) novel that interweaves the stories of three different women living with the successes and failures of our ages of technology. The social commentary in this book was especially smart, and I think it could be a fun book to read for a book club or discussion group.

(review and rating to come, but in the meantime I wanted to thank CLASH Books and Amy DeBellis herself for my eARC and swag in exchange for my honest review. I'm so excited to be apart of All Our Tomorrow's Street Team and even <i>more</i> excited to get reading!)

All Our Tomorrows is a book about three women living in futuristic NYC. Janet is an online therapist, Anna is an ex-model turned sugar baby, and Gemma is an aspiring influencer.

The writing was beautiful and thought-provoking, but I had a hard time connecting with some of the characters. Anna was probably my favorite, which is to say she was the character who irritated me the least. Something about the way she was written felt kind of stereotypical, though I could be reading too much into it.

Anyway, for a book set in the near future, the only major crisis at hand is climate change. There were a few offhand attempts to date the story- Anna knows that Game of Thrones was popular a “number of years ago”- but given the lack of discussion about war or politics or literally any other global issue, it was a little difficult to fully immerse myself in it.

We’ve already been living in unprecedented times- Trump’s presidency, COVID, the insurrection, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s attacks on Gaza, etc. The upcoming election has a lot of people even more nervous for the future.

I tried working this all out. I’m terrible at math, but if I had to guess, the story takes place about 10 years in the future. Janet’s older sister Izzy, a mom of three toddlers, was born in the 90s. Supposing she was born later in the decade, she’d be in her mid to late twenties in 2024. In 2034 she’d be at least 35. My mom was the same age when she had me, so it’s plausible that Izzy’s a thirtysomething mom with three young children. What I had a hard time believing was that environmental issues were the only thing to get worse over a 10-year timeframe. The story could have taken place in the present day and not much would have changed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Thank you for the arc copy from the publisher.

We follow three young women on an isolating journey of life back to finding their community, realising that communication with the people in their lives is so important for discovering how to live well. While this book was sad and shows how our world has changed so dramatically, at the end of it, it shows that the relationships we foster either bring us to life, or kills us. Life is not meant to be lived in isolation, or fear, or anxiety for the future. What matters is the here and the now, found family, or real family, being open with our reasons for doing something, and how far we may go before we address the underlying loneliness, and honour our lives.
I found this book to be extremely readable, I found myself ignoring my other titles in order to make my way through this. The characters, Anna, Gemma and Janet had me hooked the entire time. The author manages to capture a feeling, a sense of hope through her writing even when it seems like there is none.

I highly recommend this novel and I look forward to more by this author.

As someone who can relate to feeling a bit lost in the world, All Our Tomorrows by Amy DeBellis is a thought-provoking read. It explores the lives of three young women, each struggling to find their place amid the challenges of a bleak near-future. DeBellis masterfully intertwines their stories with themes of climate anxiety, isolation, and existential dread, all while offering a glimmer of hope. If you’re looking for a narrative that dives deep into the emotions of searching for meaning, this one will definitely resonate

this is definitely a "if you're in your 20s" everything will be ok book. just loved how everything(one) re-connects at the end and it's just a human feeling of thinking you're not doing enough, executed very well.

All Our Tomorrows was a whirlwind of emotions that left me both breathless and a bit bewildered. The premise of a world on the brink of destruction, where a select few are chosen to survive, was gripping from the start. I was immediately drawn into the characters' struggles as they navigated love, loss, and the terrifying unknown.

DeBellis's writing is vivid and evocative, creating a sense of urgency and desperation that kept me turning the pages. The exploration of humanity's resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity was both inspiring and thought-provoking. However, the pacing felt a bit uneven at times, and some of the plot twists felt a little contrived.

Overall, All Our Tomorrows is a powerful and emotionally charged read that explores the fragility of life and the enduring strength of the human spirit. While the story may not be perfect, it certainly left a lasting impression.

This was a much quieter book than I was expecting (I don't know why but the description of the book reminded me of Followers by Megan Angelo, and so I was expecting something much more plot-driven), but the language was very beautiful. It's a quiet character study of 3 young adult women, very much a coming-of-age story about life not living up to your expectations and learning how to reassess and make changes. Beautiful prose, just very different from what I was expecting, 3.5 stars rounded up.

Unfortunately not for me. In a world with SO many books being published, I just don't see this as a must in our collection.

All Our Tomorrows is a well written novel about the connection between three seemingly unrelated women. I was engaged from start to finish. At times, it left me feeling woeful about the state of the world, but also, strangely enough, inspired to try to make it a better place.

4/5 stars!

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

I was fascinated by the plot, but I had a hard time making it through and maintaining my interest. This book is well reviewed, so it may just not be the book for me.

Did not finish at 40%.

Three young women, each with different problems and backgrounds, also have in common aspects like living in NY and being disappointed.
We get to know them each first, with DeBellis’ talented writing (detailed descriptions and the externalisation of the internal), and then their fates interweave at an unusual event.
I found this very contemporary, relevant, interesting.

Plot, characterisation, execution, style, mood, themes are all in the 4 and above bands.