A review by achuna2
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

This book is a masterful game that gives you a personal stake in the survival of a friendship through game space and time. I believe that the writer and the hidden narrator give “the illusion of choice” that is so painfully an Achilles heel to both main characters. Most romance novels follow the tropes of missed opportunities, friends to lovers, “there’s only one room in the inn” but none compare to the way Gabrielle weaves these two characters’ s timeline’s into a knot of conflicts and interactions that somehow plateau or run parallel when they need each other most. Somehow you end up rooting for both Sadie and Sam because she does such a good job of revealing all the shameless external points of view and shameful inner dialogue that shape the way that we want to engineer a happy ending for them to continue their mission through life and through their work. 
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