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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

712 reviews

lambclown's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
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sarah_sati's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

I‘ve never read a book like this before. It was so beautiful and sad and emotional and I was just really rooting for all these characters. The friendships in this book are the main focus and how they change throughout life. The most important theme is platonic love and the power and beauty of it, which I personally really enjoy reading about. 
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maddieframe's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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gam2005's review against another edition

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emotional informative relaxing slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I felt it was a slow burn/character buildup and then the last 100ish pages some drama happens. I liked the story, but I found myself wanting to predict things when it wasn’t that kind of story.
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mallorygoldsmith's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

An emotional roller coaster watching two young people go from children to functioning adults.
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meganpalu's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

SPOILERS 

The first half of the book this seemed like a book I would have written in middle school. Too many words, and a manic pixie dream pulled straight out of a John Green novel. I liked/enjoyed the first half based on nostalgia alone. However, the second half dealt more with the loss of love than I expected. I didn’t get attached enough to the characters to have their losses hurt, but it provided a new way to look at love. Overall, a book about the complicated ebbing nature of love. 
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jenferlizbeth's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective 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

4.25

I really enjoyed the first 70% of the book. I ultimately appreciate the ending, but have mixed feelings on the last part of the story - there are some inconsistencies in character development, and one particular thread is a bit trope-y and lazily done. But I guess that’s life as a whole.
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schnaucl's review against another edition

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challenging emotional medium-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? Yes

4.5

I liked the book a lot more than I thought I would given that a lot of the problems could have been if not completely avoided then at least ameliorated if the characters had just talked to each other.   Similarly, Sadie was very aware of the misogamy in the gaming industry
but slept with her professor anyway even though she knew it would change how people perceived her work if it got out.


But the characters all felt very believable, even if in their selfishness and stubbornness.   And people do very dumb things in their 20s.

So I liked the characters in spite of themselves and I thought all the gaming stuff was handled very well.  

Given Gamergate and the toxicity in some gaming communities, it's amazing what happened to Marx hasn't actually happened.  Poor Marx.

I felt bad for the people playing Pioneers who lost their game because it had served it's purpose, which was never the player base at large.
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raych_bee's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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? Yes

4.5

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as00551's review against another edition

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challenging reflective
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I put off reading for a while because of the theme of gaming and not having a huge interest/knowledge area in it, but it is more than this and I now understand the hype. I hadn’t expected it to be such a good read!
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