A review by tbrnichols
Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I didn't love that the endings for the women seemed a bit one-note and that the endings for the men felt like they happened so much earlier and with so much less emphasis. But overall this book was a beautiful meditation on memory and experience and the complicated nature of living in the present and the past at the same time, that living in the present can mean living in your memory too and embracing that fact of recollection, of triggers, of the ghosts of past moments playing over your thoughts, truly a conquering of forgetfulness not by excising memory but by embracing only the remembered, and forsaking the unrecallable. Also despite the writing seeming not that great at times, and the limited character perspective being emphasized by experiencing the same events multiple times making the third person narration kind of awkward, this books limited expanse of time covered makes this an ode to language and description in a way I really adore (though the descriptions of sex were abhorrently floral and seemed to betray a lack of faith in the word to do it justice).