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A review by emmas_bookshelf
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
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. It came out in July so you can read it 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. It came out in July so you can read it now!