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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

232 reviews

scmiller's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Grief, Murder, Gun violence, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Infidelity, Car accident, Gun violence, Murder, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Violence, Fatphobia, Medical content, Racism, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Antisemitism, Homophobia, Hate crime, Abortion, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Body shaming

marym419's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Sexual harassment, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

Minor: Abortion, Pregnancy, and Homophobia

addie's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Death, Car accident, Grief, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Cancer, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Terminal illness and Racial slurs

shelbyreagan's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Violence, Racism, Gun violence, Drug use, Pregnancy, Medical content, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Death, Cursing, Car accident, and Cancer

maddiebusick's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Sexism, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Cursing, Classism, Violence, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Cancer, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

qrschulte's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad 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

The first two chapters were a bit rough, and I didn’t love the style of the language, but I kept reading because I was intrigued. And then I read the third chapter and was hooked. By the end, I was in love. 

I didn’t find Sadie and Sam particularly likable, but I completely understood their motivations and their choices were believable. 

This was a really ambitious book, and I think Zevin executed it really well. You can tell she put in a lot of time researching to make it realistic. It’s clearly a love letter to gaming, and I really appreciated the style of the different sections. I think it added a lot to the narrative. This is definitely a book that I will enjoy even more on a future read, though having a physical copy would make it easier to flip back to remind myself of different sections. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Abortion, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and War

Not a true adult/minor relationship, but the power dynamic was definitely like one. The ableism is more internalized.

bookedandbusy's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I absolutely loved this book! It was incredible and sad and I’m still thinking about it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Vomit

shirarweiss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical content, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

kimschouwenaar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Car accident, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Vomit, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Pregnancy, Cancer, Animal death, Drug use, and Gaslighting

webtheweeb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

It is so selfish to even have the thought that a book might be somehow cosmically, impossibly written with you in mind. Still, as a young woman who often has to clamp her mouth tight to avoid constantly talking through the recently discovered miracle of open-world RPG games designed largely with men in mind, I did have that thought, accompanied by ones about how fortunate I am that it’s not, after all, written with me in mind. But I did have that thought. And I did love this book.

What I think Zevin does so brilliantly through her odd third-person omniscient, retrospective narrator is deliver details that catch your eye, innocently at first, details that make you think, “Huh. That’s interesting, but I’m not quite sure why I’m drawn to it,” or “Was that explained? Did I miss something?” and then lulling you into a brief but blissful sense of security, only to absolutely sucker-punch you a page or two later with that delicious piece of information you were missing. My G-d, the poster of Sam’s mom in the restaurant. The careful arrangement of every aspect of Sam’s college life by Marx. The freight, and the groove, and the heads and shoulders. These instances, in some cases, literally took my breath away. I had to close my eyes for a second, breathe, recover. Then dive back in.

I loved that I didn’t particularly love any of the characters. I felt that the narrator allows their reader to maintain a professional distance from the story at hand. You’re dipping into lives, but you are not in them. You are the player, being guided along. And my goodness, does this book understand what it is to love video games.

I had a lot of things I wanted to say in this review. I’m not remembering them all now, but I do know that this book will be clattering about in my head for a while, even though I consumed it in just a day. It was wonderful. It was devastating. It was being understood. It was weird. That second-person Marx POV chapter? Absolutely brilliant and unlike anything else I’ve ever read, and good enough to provoke the catharsis one needs after reading a book with the weight of this one. 

All said, I’m so thankful that I finally decided to give this one a try. I think I’m going to start a second Stardew playthrough now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, Mass/school shootings, Racism, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion