Reviews with content warning for Mass/school shootings - Demain, et demain, et demain

This book is very highly rated, and with the reviews, I was very excited for this book. It's extremely popular. So popular infact, that I had to wait 29 weeks for it on Libby.

While the story was one of friendship and business partners, it's a

sad, one sided love story that is never reciprocated.

If you do not like the miscommunication troupe (I do not), then you will not like this book.

Sam clearly has untreated PTSD, and possibly even autistic, and Sadie spends 60% of the book being upset with him, whilst not understanding him.
I found Sadie's chapters to be something I was dreading, and hoping they would pass quickly. She is hyper critical, and is unwilling to see anyone else's POV.
This book didn't have to be some grand love story, but it wasn't even close. It was sorely lacking a true wrap up. If there was a sequel to this, it is one I woul pass.
Rating higher, because it was so eloquently written, and touches on so many issues within society, and did have some hopeful insights.

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skdonnelly11's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

4.75

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whiskeywoman79's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Fiction / Contemporary / Romance / Historical Fiction

TW: Suicide, Grief, SA if not rape as BDSM needs to be consensual even if the victim tries to make themselves indifferent, cheating, homophobia, drug use, car accident, toxic relationships, gun violence. There are so many...

This was one of those books. It was a hard read. I am happy I read it, but I am not sure I liked it. I will definitely think about it for a while. I am not sure it was meant to be enjoyed? Or thought-provoking? Or just to relive the past? I failed in the 400 pages to ever find a purpose or moral of the story, aside from '2 selfish people should continue to forgive each other over and over and over...'

I also found it difficult to like many of the characters. Yet the nostalgia of it all allowed me to fit myself into the story and see the world through their eyes.

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liaer's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I can see why people like this book, but it wasn't for me. I found the main characters to be irritating. I will give the author a lot of credit in that respect. These characters felt real and so I was able to be irritated by them. The chapter I liked the best was

the one from Marx's perspective.

That was the only point where I was really excited to return back to the book. Not my cup of tea. If you like this book, you're gonna love it.

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livy0426's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

This book moved me in ways I did expect. I couldn’t put it down.

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eevah's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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slowburnsrus's review against another edition

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tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

When I started this book I was bored by the clunky and self indulgent writing, and annoyed by the peak White Feminism critique of trauma and cultural appropriation that was far less thoughtful and nuanced than the Barbie movie.

The root of my dissatisfaction is that reading about a character playing a game is like reading about a character working out…fun when you do it yourself, excruciating when we read the minutiae of another’s experience.

The strongest part of this book is its work with grief, and the metaphors around gaming in relation to grief and loss. That grabbed me in the second half and kept me reading.

But the writing feel excessively overwrought with not enough payoff in either plot or observations on the human condition to make me enjoy reading it.

I cannot express how much I came to loathe many of the characters, particular Dov, the sexual harasser and groomer who (spoiler) gets a fucking redemption arc at the end of the book.

I was surprised that there were fewer attributions than I would expected in the authors note as I recognized many of the book’s references, and Sadie in particular was prone to insightful wanderings that so had definitely read before.

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faerylibrary's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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