A beautifully written and fantastic story about friendship, childhood, and video games. The novel was so multi-layered and honestly, I could not stop thinking about it days later. I want to re-read it once it is out in hardback/paperback just to relive it.

“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”


Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Thank you so damn much to NetGalley and Knopf publishing group for the advance copy because this book is fricking amazing.

I have to admit I haven't actually heard of Gabrielle Zevin before starting this, but (when dissertations and such like are done) I'm going to search out the backlist! Although a bit slow at points, this book was practically perfect - and I never say that.

Reading the synopsis might put you off if you're not a gamer - don't worry! I'm not a gamer, and I loved it. Yeah, they did talk a lot about video games, but I was so engrossed in the characters and the writing that I didn't feel left behind. I guess I might have got more out of it if did game, but maybe that would have been too much! There are some technical bits about computing, but very little - it's entirely accessible. So, therefore, you have to read this book. It comes out in July and you will regret it if you don't!

I don't really know where to start with this... it starts from the MCs (Sam and Sadie) as children and (with gaps) follows them through life. That's such an understatement about this wonderful book - I don't know how to write about it to give it the praise it needs.

Let's just say: I laughed, I cried, I felt paralysed with grief, I was apprehensive, sad, annoyed and frustrated (why can't characters see when they do things that are bad for them?), and I was completely fully engaged. I loved Sadie and Sam (even when I wanted to throttle one, or both, of them). Their friendship was beautifully real; these characters felt so authentic that I dreamt about them while reading this.

I guess some people might find it heavy-going, just as a fair warning. It's quite long - and Zevin plays around with different techniques (second person, dropping you into a video game) which might not gel with everyone. But, please, please give it a try.

This review is entirely inadequate; maybe I'll write something better on a reread (there will be rereads). It's taken a piece of my heart with it and I was so sad to finish it. I truly think this is a masterpiece.

'"What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Its the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever."'

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a coming of age novel about Sam and Sadie. It follows their friendship based off a shared love of gaming.

This book reads to me as 500 Days of Summer meets Ready Player One.

As a part-time gamer, the backstory of gaming really intrigued me. The detail in how to make video games is phenomenal, but its described in such a relatable way, allowing you understand and appreciate everything that goes into creating a video game over the 30 years spanned in the book. The connections made throughout about the intricacies of gaming to life, had me mesmerised! There was lots of little quotes that will stick with me long after finishing this book.

The characters are loveable, honest, and relatablely frustrating at times. How Sam deals with his disability and tries to shut people out and deal with his pain himself, and how Sadie switches herself off from the world to cope with bouts of depression, really connects them more fluidly with the overall premise of them treating life as a game and being able to switch off and restart when you meet hurdles.

I loved everything about this book and cannot wait for its release in July!

This book appealed to me because my son is a gamer and I thought it would be nice to have an insight into that world through my love of reading. This book is amazing!! I love a coming of age story and this just blew me away. I'm going to recommend it to everyone and buy the hardback copy as soon as I can!

This is an intriguing novel which explores the different types of love against a backdrop of computer gamers and programmers in the 1990s and 2000s.

The central characters of Sam and Sadie are both heavily into computer games and meet as early teens in a hospital. Their paths cross at university where they start creating computer games. Through their gaming, Sam and Sadie become incredibly close friends with an extremely deep bond, they never tip over into becoming lovers. Whilst Sadie pursues a number of romantic relationships through the novel, Sam doesn't - he seems to prefer friendships.

It's really refreshing to see a close friendship like this which proclaims that men and women can be friends - it doesn't always have to involve sex. The novel is also honest enough to show that close friends do fall out but can be reconciled (beautifully done when one makes the other a computer game to show how much they care) through the ups and downs of life.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. There were some extraneous parts (usually flash-forwards) which didn't add much to the story and the first couple of pages aren't as good a hook as they should be - with these edits, I'd have given a higher rating.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is the first book from the author I have read and what a fabulous book it is.
Fourteen-year-olds Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital room. Sam recovering from a damaged foot after been involved in a car accident that resulted in the death of his mother and Sadie as a visitor. Her sister is in hospital for treatment. Their bond over a video game which leads them to build a friendship that last decades.
They meet years later when Sadie is a game designer and Sam is at M.I.T. They collaborate and a build a game that becomes famous. Their relationship builds but only platonically. Sam always hoping that it will develop into something more but never shows his true feelings. Whereas Sadie has several relationships but they never last like her friendship with Sam.
Thank you, Random House, for a copy Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow. This is a beautifully written story about friendships, love discrimination and disability. This story is also about gaming. But as am not a gamer myself, it Is still easy to pick up. But I do recognise the names of the games though. I really enjoyed this except I found the story longer than I thought. 4.5 stars from me

Thank you to Netgalley/publisher/author for an advanced copy of this!

This story follows Sam and Sadie and their journey of playing, creating and promoting video games over a span of around 30 years.

I loved that this was set over such a long period of time. We get to see them grow from being young, we see their friendship grow, them separate and then get back together with how their lives grow together unexpectedly.

Sam and Sadie, both are incredible characters and I love how they both developed throughout the story.

Loved the whole book, especially loved the sounds of the books the trio created and wished some of them were real!

Great book overall!

Dull, forced romance with weak dialogue and cringey references to games. Very unengaging prose for a story that never rose above tedious and took an age to get barely anywhere at all. I was very, very bored for much of it. Definitely not recommended to anyone.

I would struggle to be able to review this book due to issues with the file/download. The issues stopped the flow of the book. The issues are:
- Missing words in the middle of sentences
- Stop/start sentences on different lines
- No clear definition of chapters.

Not sure if it was a file/download issue but there were lots of gaps, stop/starts which really ruined the flow. I would love the chance to read a better version as the description of the book appeals to me.

Review Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a wonderful contemporary novel that examines many of the issues we will all deal with in our lifetime; the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, redemption and above all connections. Our human need to be loved and to love.

That said this novel is not a romance, not in that sense but it is about love and also friendships that are so necessary but so fragile. We see two kids meeting in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there but their love of video games becomes a shared world – a world of joy, escapism and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over and a bitterness takes over.

Eight years later the pair spot each other in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love. Creating video games to delight, immerse and challenge players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars. But the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam create in their games is far different from the imperfect one they live in. And while success brings its own rewards of fame and money it isn’t long before tragedy and duplicity follow.

What stuck out most to me about this story is the realism of it all. Dealing with themes that nearly everyone will have faced within their life and looking at how these affect all those around them. You find yourself wrapped up in the lives of the characters, not just Sadie and Sam but Marx and others as well. We go through their struggles and their joys and sometimes you just want to shake them up because you can see where things are going.

The writing is easy and engaging, keeping you hooked. The characters are all beautifully flawed and imperfectly perfect. Despite their issues you find yourself liking them. Understanding them and wanting to see it all work out right in the end. The ending is beautifully bittersweet and captures what often happens. The themes of different kinds of love and the love of two friends able to transcend decades and all the strains that come with growing up and growing old is beautiful and something I really enjoyed. I would recommend to anyone who likes a slice of life type of novel that deals with all the gritty and sometimes sad things that happen within life.
As always thank you to netgalley for the ARC to review

I can't recommend this book enough, I loved it. Every character is drawn out in such beautiful detail and I was fully invested from the first page. Whether you're a fan of video games or not, you can't help but be sucked into the narrative - I guarantee that once you start reading, you won't want to put it down.

Rating: 3.5/5

"You are incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it."

I was so excited to read this book and I don’t want to say I’m disappointed, but it didn’t click as much as I was expecting.

I did enjoy the story. I love this type of books, coming of age stories where friends lose themselves, only to find each other again years later, and is it love or maybe it’s not, who knows.
I loved Sadie and Sam’s story, but I actually disliked them both very much. Which maybe was the point of the book?
The one character I absolutely loved from the start was Marx, the ray of sunshine in everyone’s lives, the only one that got my heart, deserving all the good things in the world.

I did get emotional at one point and I admit I wasn’t expecting that particular tragedy to happen. But still, it wasn’t enough to make me love the book like I usually do when I read something like this.

Written in a dry and almost detached style, I do recommend it if you like a slow slice-of-life kind of story. And if you are into gaming of course.

Zevin's The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry was an ode to books and her Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is an ode to video games.

We need stores, alternate stories than ours because they help us see our stories better. They also give us a time out from our troubles, make us think, give us hope, show us different perspectives and make us part of the bigger world. I think that it does not really matter where these stories come from, be it books, video games, theatre, pictures, art in all it's forms is welcome as long as it touches us. I am not a gamer but it did not matter here because I was still drawn in reading about it. After all that is one of the reasons I read, to taste different things.

Around this love poem to video games, Zevin builds the story of three friends, their dreams, pains, loves, needs. How all these change with time. How life itself sculpts our decisions and all is a work in progress.

Great read.

An ARC gently provided by author/publisher via Netgalley

What an astounding book. I think even if I tried I could not put into words how absolutely I adored this book. Confession, I am not the worlds biggest gamer, I don’t like video games on consoles but regularly find solace in games that Sadie loves. The best thing is that didn’t matter. If I knew the games referenced or not the feelings about the games really underpinned everything.

It has been years since I have stayed up sobbing my heart out unable to put a book down because it is everything I wanted it to be even when it is so heartbreaking that you’re not sure you’ll ever recover.

It is the most glorious story about overcoming adversity, hard work, friendship and love. And I love this book. I imagine it will not be long before I re read it. I will miss the characters, and their story. The phrasing and the intricacies and way that historical writing is woven in so perfectly.

Thank you for the opportunity to read a book that at once broke my heart and filled it up simultaneously.

This one isn't for me I'm afraid. Nothing wrong with it other than personal taste. DNF at about 75 pages in.

Love, Friendship and Extreme Gaming.

In common probably with most of us, I know at least a little about love and friendship, so two of the three ‘abouts’ were likely to have some resonance.

I hesitated long before requesting this, put off by the gaming subject. One I have no interest at all in. I ADORED this book. Now, it is possible, - or even probable – that if I were a gamer, I would have adored it even more.

Do not hold back from reading this if you are uninterested, disinterested or completely put off by the idea of gaming. I doubt I will ever want to game, but I did fall in love with the invented games, the way these were imagined, in the same way that my imagination and interest has been stirred by novels where invented works of art are beautifully described, so clearly that the reader is convinced they must exist

Frankly, given my DISinterest in gaming, I’m still amazed and surprised by how much I loved this, it is inventive, playful, intense and immersive in its writing. Zevin created characters who were real, prickly and troubled, both irritating and, ultimately ones the reader cares intensely about.

There are 3 major characters, two of whom meet as children in hospital. Sam and Sadie are obsessively entranced by gaming. They are bright, hurt, resentful and marginalised, for different reasons. The narrative jumps both forwards and backwards in time, sometimes revisiting experiences told earlier, but with a somewhat different perspective. The sections of the book are divided into game epochs. Sam, Sadie, and the third character, the beautifully grace endowed, compassionate Marx, whom Sam meets as a student, end up as creators of a gaming company.

Ultimately aspects of friendship, aspects of love, in all their rich and often troubled forms are explored.

I have no desire to say any more about the ‘what happens’ To do so would take away the pleasure of the reading encounter. The reader needs to ‘play’ this reading adventure for themselves, and explore the worlds within

I’m certainly noting the writer’s name, and absolutely would read anything else she pens

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher’s – and the early reviewers who persuaded this ‘why on earth would I want to read a novel about computer games’ to take a punt. And most of all, of course, to Gabrielle Zevin

This story follows Sam and Sadie and their journey of playing, creating and promoting video games. Spanning over 30 years, we see the pair grow up, fall out, drift apart, and come back together, with their lives intertwined. Aside from Sam and Sadie - both of whom are incredible characters - I really love Marx. He truly cares about Sam, and would do anything to protect his friend. I'm not much of a gamer but this story is fascinating and I found myself wanting to play the games that this wonderful trio created - especially Ichigo. Despite this story being quite turbulent at times, the ending was hopeful.

I have to admit the following things.

First and foremost I am a sucker for a coming of age story.

I am also a geek.

I liked playing video games when I was younger.

I love to read.

If you are also all (or most) of these things then Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the book for you. It is a character driven novel, looking at life, coming of age, relationships, friendships all through the eyes of video games. Don't get me wrong, even if you have no interest in video games you will still enjoy this book however I think it will be even more special for those of us who do.

I really like all three main characters, both within themselves and how they were with each other.

This is my first book by this author but it won't be my last.

Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Vintage, Chatto & Windus for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Magnum opus. A pretty epic story that covers on all experience of human existence - love, friendship, loss, sadness and happiness. I was utterly captivated and did not want it to end.
Beautiful characterization and a plot full of challenging situations. Will be recommending to all book lovers!

This book RUINED me. I was reading at dinner, when out with friends, on the bus -- I could NOT put it down for the life of me!! It was so compelling and the premise -- how love and care is built into video games? found family? narratives of loss and creation? so stunningly written, and each character was real.to me, with their own flaws and quirks that I grew so attached to. Marx was a personal favourite!! I cannot wait to get this in hardback when it is published! I eagerly await it.