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

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was such a breathtakingly sweet book. I haven’t read such deep characterizations and well-developed relationships in a long time. I loved how Sadie and Sam were high-brow, Uber intellectuals dedicated to their crafts but they also walked extra miles in the rain just to get nice umbrellas for their friends’ wedding. Like, they were always decent people in addition to being really creative, driven workaholics who each endured a great deal of strife. The tortured artist thing happens a lot in these kinds of books and it could easily and logically have gone in that direction, but I’m really impressed by this characterization choice.
My main qualm with the book was that it contradicted itself sometimes; like Sam started out saying he would never be in love with Sadie but then he was like “I’m in love with Sadie”. I guess that was always supposed to be kind of evident, but I didn’t love that. The jump from Sadie loving Sam and being willing to move back to California for his benefit to hating him because she thought he deliberately took advantage of her relationship with Dov was also a little too sudden for me to believe. The narrative also kind of jumps from past to present to future a lot and it was sometimes like the book was going off on a random tangent, but it eventually would come back around.
Lastly, Marx Watanabe—my very best friend—I love you so dearly and I want to be exactly like you every day of my life. 
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