Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Demain, et demain, et demain by Gabrielle Zevin

1311 reviews

sighapple's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.75

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Drug use, Hate crime, and Car accident

bookbrenna's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

gerdalnrmj's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Murder

Minor: Drug use, Blood, Car accident, and Abortion

modzu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Drug use, Sexism, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Cultural appropriation, and Classism

theoldestbennetsister's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A surprisingly easy read considering it's also pretty dense. Even if I wasn't super invested in the characters, I was still interested enough to see how their relationship developed and changed. The idea of not fully knowing why someone does what they do, even someone you know incredibly well, really came through.
Part VII really caught me off guard though, I fully cried.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cancer and Classism

graciennz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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

4.5

ADHD friendly! The story telling jumps timelines to give further detail. Sometimes it’s 2 perspectives, others is years prior. I was disappointed when I got to the last page, I didn’t realize I was done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Car accident

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

Minor: Abortion

dkdiehm's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

andersonstovall's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Car accident

Minor: Terminal illness and Vomit

melodee15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, and Abortion

yourbestbreaux's review against another edition

This book was recommended by a friend and I got it through the library. I ran out of time on the library book, and I found myself not wanting to put a hold on it again. I read a synopsis of the rest of the book and I'm glad that I didn't. To me, the book read like a series of tropes strung together, paired with (alternately) unrealistically dense or pseudo-enlightened characters. I found the discussions of creativity somewhat enjoyable, but the author has an annoying tendency of overselling a point. I enjoy books that really create a setting, or explain characters well, but this book just took it too far; to the point where even some of the comma-separated lists that the author writes are ten or more examples long. Finally, this book really should come with a content warning; it was on my friend's kids high school reading list but includes: BDSM, Polyamory, LGBTQ issues, Suicide, and a great variety of other topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Car accident, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship