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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

93 reviews

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Blood, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Medical content, Mental illness, Torture, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Gore, Hate crime, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Classism, Bullying, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Drug use, Xenophobia, Car accident, and Racism

Minor: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Cancer

emmahdonnelly's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Racial slurs

Minor: Car accident

marie200's review against another edition

emotional funny relaxing sad fast-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

4.0

Es un libro que te gustará si eres un gamer absoluto. A lo largo del libro se utilizan sinfín de referencias del entorno de los videojuegos, tantas que parece imposible poder llegar a captarlas todas. Pero considero que ello le añade un encanto especial al libro, de modo que cada lector tendrá una experiencia distinta al leerlo.

En cuanto a los personajes, es un libro que te deja ver tanto lo bueno como lo malo. No se pretende crear personas perfectas, sino precisamente profundizar en las relaciones humanas entre personas normales, con sus virtudes pero, especialmente, con sus defectos. 

A pesar de ello, los personajes se me han hecho muy entrañables y no resulta difícil ponerte en su lugar y entender y respetar el porqué de sus decisiones, pese a poder no estar de acuerdo con las mismas.

En general, me parece un muy buen libro para pasar una tarde relajante de lectura, con sus altibajos y algún que otro giro argumental inesperado. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction

dile_xo's review against another edition

funny hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Moderate: Xenophobia and Antisemitism

Minor: Abortion and Ableism

kitkathw871's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Rarely have I read a book that captures human experience so perfectly. The characters are flawed, but you understand them. You root for themas you follow their good times and bad, you truly feel as if you know them. Zevin's writing is beautiful and the last section of the book is a memorable stand out in all the books I read last year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gun violence, Death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual content

mellowkittenreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This was an interesting read. The title and cool graphic design intrigued me. I went into it honestly not even really reading more than the first couple lines of the description. I have never read a book with this sort of plot line - gamers, growing pains, and even painful experiences of racism and discrimination all in one. The writing style was different- I read it digitally and simultaneously listened along with my spotify membership. It was easy to get immersed into this universe. I liked how there was a mix of present, past, and future AND first and third person- I’m telling y’all very different and yet it worked well for the most part. There were a few times I had to reread to make sure I understood who the narrator was embodying. I finished maybe an hour ago and am still digesting. I share the frustration with Sam and Sadie. On one side would’ve loved if they at least had an intimate experience but on the other side I wanted them to be both single and leave other characters alone with their bad communication skills and annoying behaviors. I am disheartened with how things went with Marx’s character. I liked the representation of disabilities, chronic pain, asian characters. However I wish this book included trigger warnings. I feel a bit overwhelmed and overexposed to the asian discrimination and gun violence the characters experienced. Too vulnerable for us bipoc. I am one who loves happy endings and this was as a whole bittersweet. I adored the link to the meeting up in the station and the ending - so sweet! I think that’s all for now. Give it a try.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Drug use, Mental illness, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

as much as sadie claimed sam was a bad person, who sleeps with someone in a relationship (dov and then again marx) and one of those people is your best friend’s friend? like girl. I absolutely agree with sam that them being in a relationship which so shady they “hid” it like marx you really tainted yourself, but alas, it did skew sadie being favored. which arguably was intentional seeing how she got her way with dov and got his code and mentorship.

quotablehedgehog's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death, Dysphoria, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Medical content, Misogyny, Transphobia, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Racism, Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy, Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Antisemitism, Classism, Drug use, Ableism, and Racial slurs

kyriannaj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Classism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

dramagirl2003's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective relaxing slow-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

5.0

i am kind of speechless
sam and sadie are basically the dream team, and marx is such a good facilitator. the author's choice of time era was perfect, and she obviously wrote from somewhat of a personal experience

p11:

And yet, he knew himself and he knew he was the type of person that never called anyone, unless he was absolutely certain the advance would be welcomed. 

ha! me

p39: i bet

dov is her bf

p40: WHAT
p41: ha, she's right, she totally is like the solution player
p43: girlie this doesn't seem healthy, go get real friends
p66: huh? the MCs are born in '74? they're old
p82: they're not speaking again? seriously
p209: that is a twist! to be fair if this is the reason they stop speaking I can understand that
p265: purely based on the fact that one of the sections is called marriages,

i predict that marx and zoe will be one of them

p267: you what
p283: don't tell me

marx and sadie are the ones that get married

p331:

bet she's pregnant

p335:

are we sure marx is ok? like ARE WE DAMN SURE

p338: before I read any further let's have another prediction based this section title...if it's called the npc because

MARX DIES OR SMTH AND SADIE SPENDS HER WHOLE LIFE ON MAPLEWORLD INTERACTING WITH AN NPC THEY BASE ON MARX

I AM GOING TO SOB HYSTERICALLY
p340: I'M SCARED
p344: no! i'm gonna cry for poor charlotte and adam cause i bet they won't get to make their game now and they really needed this ☹️
p351: sam! that is an unnecessary insult bro
p356: NOT ANT
P360: OH THANK THE LORD
p361: OH HE FREAKING BETTER NOT!!

DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE THAT CHILD WITHOUT A FATHER!!

p363:

JUST HOLD ON MARX, COME ON!!!

p365: AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭
@esthersanderson! GIRL! DID YOU BUY ME THIS BOOK JUST TO PUT ME THROUGH ALL THIS EMOTIONAL TRAUMA???
p368: how am i supposed to move on in this book knowing that

marx is dead??

p404: oh my goshhhh, it's the "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech
p446: ok this a slightly immature reason not to speak, but she's grieving so we'll forgive her

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Cancer

Minor: Abandonment, Cultural appropriation, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Vomit, Abortion, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

julianaparra's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Car accident, Chronic illness, Grief, Death, and Sexism

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Physical abuse, Cultural appropriation, and Vomit