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A review by alibookedup
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
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
5.0
I absolutely ADORED this! Starting it, I wasn't sure how I felt about it because it was just so different from what I expected with its writing style, genre, and characters. I'm so glad it proved me wrong! I know this is a book I will think about for a very long time.
The characters were so raw and flawed and insecure and broken. It made me love them even more. They drive you crazy with their high standards and make you pitty them for their acknowledged pain. I loved that Sam and Sadie's relationship teetered back and forth on the edge of romantic. It made you want them to date and never date simultaneously. I loved that dynamic way more than I ever thought I would. I loved the trio's relationship as well. Marx was not a "Sam" or a "Sadie", but he fit in perfectly nonetheless. He was our Hector, our Tamer of Horses, and was such an interesting character to throw into the crazy mix of Sam and Sadie. They all broke my heart and put it back together again.
I don't think this story and these characters would have worked well at all if it wasn't for Gabrielle Zevin. Her knowledge and nerdiness about all things programming and gaming is another factor that I feel brought everything to life. She herself WAS Unfair Games creating a gaming world to immerse us all in. It made my gamer-self so so SO happy. I've never read of characters like this, especially female characters, and was grateful to finally see a normalization of female gamers in literature. It also made me IMMENSELY nostalgic. I grew up playing Pokemon on my Gameboy and being introduced into console gaming when the very first Halo game out. It was love at first play and reading this brought back all those feelings. I still love playing video games to this day and I loved that reading this made me want to re-play every game under the sun. It took me longer to read this book because several times I would stop to play video games!
I also loved Zevin's writing style. It smoothly transitioned between what felt like reading a character's POV to reading a biography to a news article back to POVs. At first, I thought it might be weird and jump around to much, but it wasn't. It was exactly right -- I never felt pulled out of the story. It was quite the opposite really.
I will read anything else Zevin has to write and I highly recommend this to any reader, but especially my gamers out there.
The characters were so raw and flawed and insecure and broken. It made me love them even more. They drive you crazy with their high standards and make you pitty them for their acknowledged pain. I loved that Sam and Sadie's relationship teetered back and forth on the edge of romantic. It made you want them to date and never date simultaneously. I loved that dynamic way more than I ever thought I would. I loved the trio's relationship as well. Marx was not a "Sam" or a "Sadie", but he fit in perfectly nonetheless. He was our Hector, our Tamer of Horses, and was such an interesting character to throw into the crazy mix of Sam and Sadie. They all broke my heart and put it back together again.
I don't think this story and these characters would have worked well at all if it wasn't for Gabrielle Zevin. Her knowledge and nerdiness about all things programming and gaming is another factor that I feel brought everything to life. She herself WAS Unfair Games creating a gaming world to immerse us all in. It made my gamer-self so so SO happy. I've never read of characters like this, especially female characters, and was grateful to finally see a normalization of female gamers in literature. It also made me IMMENSELY nostalgic. I grew up playing Pokemon on my Gameboy and being introduced into console gaming when the very first Halo game out. It was love at first play and reading this brought back all those feelings. I still love playing video games to this day and I loved that reading this made me want to re-play every game under the sun. It took me longer to read this book because several times I would stop to play video games!
I also loved Zevin's writing style. It smoothly transitioned between what felt like reading a character's POV to reading a biography to a news article back to POVs. At first, I thought it might be weird and jump around to much, but it wasn't. It was exactly right -- I never felt pulled out of the story. It was quite the opposite really.
I will read anything else Zevin has to write and I highly recommend this to any reader, but especially my gamers out there.