I'll be honest, I did not go into this book with a lot of optimism. I don't do well with (sort of) contemporary to begin with and secondarily it was hyped by people who's tastes don't generally cross with my own. But I always try and do my best to read the books chosen by my bookclub, because I've found some surprising favorites over the years. 

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a love story, but not. It is also a historical fiction novel (though I'm sure that statement is inflammatory to the rest of my generation that is short-circuiting as I call the 90s "historical") but also not because although it's mainly 90s-early 00s, with some 80s, it covers things within the last decade as well. I'm still not entirely sure what the main point of the book was. I suppose the point is to show how two lives can become so interconnected with one enough because of a series of coincidences over the course of a lifetime and yet be so disconnected from each other at the same time. In the end, it became a bit depressing and in some ways it felt a little too real, as in "is this really what all our lives boil down to in the end?" This specific point is how I felt about the NPC chapter, honestly oof. But kind of a good "oof", because that character felt the most real and relatable against the rest. The two mains were by turns insufferable for different reasons. 

I know this review is a bit all over the place. That's somewhat how the book felt at times, but overall it was a good thing. I was surprised that I enjoyed this by the end, though some points did drag. You definitely have to understand or enjoying gaming at least a little bit to understand the motivations of the characters and some of the technical bits. Overall solid, most likely won't re-read it, so I also don't understand the complete craze this had on the public last year.