A review by melissa_keen
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.0

I'd seen this book gaining a lot of traction, so wanted to experience it for myself. Being completely honest, it's a well-written book and is nice enough... But I've no idea why it's sold out the way it has. One of the main characters, Sadie, is borderline unlikeable and extremely annoying as a person. There's a really random bit in the story about BDSM which feels really out of place. And there were several pages I found myself glancing at and flipping through, because they dragged or felt irrelevant to the story. I felt there was little character progression. Both main protagonists kept falling out for extremely trivial, it seemed to me, reasons, and this was extremely frustrating to ensure for 430+ pages. I think that level of selfishness, or bad communication, is ok when you're young, but we watch these characters age over the course of 15+ years and they remain just as stubborn, selfish, and uncommuicative. for a book that's supposed to be about friendship, they are dreadful friends to one another. All in all, it was an ok read, but didn't leave me feeling strongly either way and I wouldn't read it again.