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A review by meg_
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
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
5.0
This is one of the best books I have ever read, and I honestly don't fully have the words to describe all of the reasons why. The themes within this book were so beautifully captured throughout the course of the story while also being so painful to read. Literally so much of this book hurt my heart. The pain of seeing the person you love more than anyone else in the world love someone else more than you, absolutely heartbreaking. The loneliness Sam experienced, the grief both Sam and Sadie experienced, the struggle of feeling or being so deeply misunderstood. And throughout all of this the bond between people who are soulmates. Maybe not romantically but in this bone deep way of knowing the person so well, loving them so much, and trusting them inherently.
The dynamics between all of our main characters were so fucking good (and so fucking painful as I've already said). I was fully sobbing to the point of feeling physically ill because it just hurt at multiple points in the book. I think the thing that stood out to me the most all throughout the story is just how real all of it felt. These characters and their struggles and their relationship dynamics and their feelings just all felt like things that people experience in their lifetimes all the time. And the reality that people and loved ones and sometimes even your soulmate can go from being the person you are closest to, to drifting apart, to not speaking at all, and back to acquaintances over and over again because life is just shitty that way and relationships are so hard to navigate. The way that we get to know each characters inner lives so well in addition to the way that others in the story view them made each of them feel so real.
I also just love the multiple ways this story is told. Throughout the book we are reading from a typical narrative perspective, and from a first person point of view, and from the lens of a character in a video game and none of those shifts in the writing took me out of the story, and if anything made me feel more ingrained in it.
Anyway, I fully did not articulate myself or my love for this book well at all but literally I want to cry just writing this review because this book is so good and I will hold it close to my heart forever.
The dynamics between all of our main characters were so fucking good (and so fucking painful as I've already said). I was fully sobbing to the point of feeling physically ill because it just hurt at multiple points in the book. I think the thing that stood out to me the most all throughout the story is just how real all of it felt. These characters and their struggles and their relationship dynamics and their feelings just all felt like things that people experience in their lifetimes all the time. And the reality that people and loved ones and sometimes even your soulmate can go from being the person you are closest to, to drifting apart, to not speaking at all, and back to acquaintances over and over again because life is just shitty that way and relationships are so hard to navigate. The way that we get to know each characters inner lives so well in addition to the way that others in the story view them made each of them feel so real.
I also just love the multiple ways this story is told. Throughout the book we are reading from a typical narrative perspective, and from a first person point of view, and from the lens of a character in a video game and none of those shifts in the writing took me out of the story, and if anything made me feel more ingrained in it.
Anyway, I fully did not articulate myself or my love for this book well at all but literally I want to cry just writing this review because this book is so good and I will hold it close to my heart forever.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicide and Car accident