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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

69 reviews

sarzad's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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 is beautiful and amazing and wonderful. I’m writing my review at 3 am, crying onto the last page. It’s so good, everyone should read it. It’s about friendship and life and games and everything, really. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Murder, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, and Car accident

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexual content, Drug use, and Vomit

Spoiler

there is a mass shooting

sevensableyes's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

It hurts to rate it beneath a 4 star, but I feel like the story didn't live up to the hype I've seen online. It's a good book, very entertaining, but it was frustrating. The characters were frustrating, their constant miscommunication and misrepresentation of each other was... frustrating.

I didn't really believe the friendship between Sam and Sadie, at least not beyond their college years.

Honestly, by the end of the book, I liked Sam more than Sadie. She held so much resentment towards Sam, and just didn't even try to talk to him about it? If she was so upset, why not just leave? Why drag everything on? I just don't get it.

This book was sold to me as a platonic-love story and a complicated friendship. But I could barely see the friendship, and

Spoiler

can it really be called platonic if Sam was in love with Sadie?

Spoiler

Fuck Dov. Why did Sadie keep in contact with that awful man? Why was his abuse used as a lighthearted joke between them? Why didn't he die?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Car accident, Racism, Sexism, Death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Death of parent, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Abortion

rellaviir's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative 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

This book hurt me... that is all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Abortion, Injury/injury detail, Gun violence, Death of parent, Death, and Homophobia

Minor: Drug use, Medical trauma, Cancer, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Mental illness, and Car accident

oz2021's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Injury/injury detail, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Misogyny

Minor: Car accident, Abortion, Cancer, and Suicide

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense slow-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 don't remember why I picked this book up, but I really enjoyed it. I have a love-hate relationship with general fiction, but I liked the exploration and character development in this book. I greatly enjoyed the video game development of it, and would absolutely play Sadie's factory game. It also stood out to me how undefined everyone's sexuality seems to be. I'm not sure if that was on purpose or not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Medical trauma, Ableism, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Death, Car accident, Hate crime, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, and Gun violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

imfixintoread's review

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

This was a slow-burn for me and I didn't want it to end. It's a story about love, friendship, life, gender roles, disabilities, and racism in a beautifully intertwined way. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Racism

ladygetslit's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is such an odd, esoteric book. I almost feel like I’m slightly too young to truly appreciate all the video game references, but I was intrigued nonetheless. Reading this book strangely felt like playing a game, but one that isn’t really won or lost. 

My main gripe: Sam and Sadie sometimes felt like they were so tied to their Fatal Flaws that it was exhausting to watch them continue to mess things up endlessly. Also

Spoiler

I felt a huge reading slump after Marx got shot… I wasn’t expecting more trauma after everything that Sam already went through!

Recommended for: aging Gen X-Millennial cusp-ers craving some serious pop culture nostalgia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Car accident, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Cancer

bexh's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/injury detail, Medical trauma, Car accident, Chronic illness, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Sexism, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, and Racism

dhutton1997's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-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

3.5

I will say this book was beautifully written. I typically cannot stand to read character-only books— I find them to be too slow and boring— but I truly enjoyed this book. I would recommend this book to other folks who (1) prefer character development only over plot, (2) are okay with reading books with major characters that you do not like, and (3) are comfortable with reading books with major triggers. 

Now tor my grievances which include spoilers. like major spoilers.

Spoiler

I did not like Sam. At all. However, the beauty of Zevin’s writing is that I still sympathized and emphasized with him so I still wanted his life to be okay. Sam had gone through so much(Anne’s death, developing a major physical disability, getting an amputation, and experiencing chronic phantom pain.) I wanted him to be happy but I believe he was written to be an unlikeable character so we can sympathize with the challenges that Marx and Sadie faced with their ever-changing relationships with Sam. I think Sam’s feelings for Sadie were very confusing for me to understand. I didn’t comprehend whether it was a platonic major love or romantic. I believed it was platonic until late in the book when he said he would’ve slept with her if it wasn’t for his foot/low self-esteem. I think the book needed someone to read the book solely to follow the plot line of Sam and Sadie’s relationship for inconsistencies with how Zevin acknowledged it. explanation: I still call it a relationship because a friendship is a relationship. Due to the fact that this book was heavily marketed as a deep-dive into the longevity of a friendship stronger than love is why I rated it a 3.5. I was too hung up on that aspect to fully understand Sam’s character which made it difficult to read some portions of the book. 

Good things but still spoilers: 
I liked Sadie. I sympathized with her. She made me realize things about my own past relationships. Again, illustrating the beauty of Zevin’s writing. 

When Marx died, I was so upset and had to set down the book. It was heartbreaking to read this when you know they’re  pregnant and what Sadie thought about it.I appreciated how she handled the coma scene and felt it did true justice to the experience. It was heart-wrenching, beautifully written, and absolutely perfect.<spoiler/> Zevin’s writing was so beautiful and I can see this book being taught in English university classes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Ableism, Car accident, Gore, Medical content, Vomit, Injury/injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Grief, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Antisemitism, Cultural appropriation, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Drug use, Eating disorder, Misogyny, and Racism

ryankey721's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.5

The basic story and writing could be cute, but the toxic main character relationship made it hard to finish. Also the writing felt like it was trying to be something or prove something that often didn't match what the story was doing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Grief, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Hate crime, Misogyny, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Gaslighting, Blood, Antisemitism, Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Grief, Genocide, Sexism, and Mental illness