I wasn't sure what to expect when I started Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow as it's themed around gaming - not something I'm into. But ultimately this is a really moving story of friendship, it just so happens to be that those friends make video games.

Sadie and Sam meet as children and stay friends - with various levels of intimacy through the years.

I found myself just drawn into these pages and really caring for both Sam and Sadie. They both made frustrating decisions at times, but that gave the whole story a level of realism. Written in such a lyrical way, this is definitely one of those reads that came out of the left-field and knocked me over. Really enjoyed it!

Believe the hype! This book is something special. It was initially a bit of a slow burn for me. I actually put it down at 20% and came back to it a few weeks later. Approaching the halfway mark, I was completely invested in the characters and story. And that feeling continued to grow such that, by the end, I couldn't bear to leave them. 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' is about friendship, love, gaming, collaboration and so much more besides. It's an excellent, richly imagined read and I can't wait to seek out more of Gabrielle Zevin's work.

There's also an accompanying Spotify playlist - a brilliantly eclectic mix of songs from different eras and genres. I highly recommend listening as you read. Anyone who receives this book for Christmas is in for a real treat!

Did I stay up till nearly 2am to finish this book? Yes, yes I did and I have no regrets.

I adored everything about this book. The characters were just amazing and so relatable that it's hard not to care about these characters and their lives.

This book is heavily about video games which I loved. I'm such a huge fan of video games. If I'm not reading, I'm playing video games or watching other people stream/play games. I really enjoyed having games as the main focus of this story and felt it made it so unique and honestly addictive. I loved all the references throughout!

I cannot get over how much I loved this book. I could talk about it for days and I'm sad it's over.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a thought-provoking, emotional and beautiful story that is going to stay with me for a very long time.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A stunningly, beautiful story following the friendship between Sadie and Sam that begins when they’re children and meet in a hospital bonding over video games. The story follows their lives when they meet again in college and collaborate on making a video game together.
The novel explores how gaming is a form of storytelling and throughout the creation process looks at how women are often marginalised in the gaming world with their credit given to the men in their lives. It’s really well observed and relatable although at times I felt it did lag especially in the second half and the portrayal as Marx was rather Saint-like, almost too perfect.

This was such an amazing read! Definitely understood all the hype that has surrounded it! I had my request for it accepted on NetGalley and I honestly don't know why I waited so long to read it!

Apart from an interesting cast of characters, I loved the gaming aspect of the story!

I loved Sam, Sadie and Marx. The relationship between Sam and Sadie was so complex though.

I loved the way the story ended.

I would definitely highly recommend it!

Thank you to NetGalley, Gabrielle Zevin and publishers Random House UK, Vintage and Chatto & Windus.

I absolutely loved this book. It deserves the hype I'm seeing on social media. In writer's terms, it wasn't always the 'best written' but proves without doubt that 'good writing craft' is unimportant if a story is great and flows well,a nd this one ticked all the boxes and had me hooked. It felt like a long book, but in the best possible way. The nostalgic setting and references were captivating (it spanned my era; I'm the same age as the characters) and the will they/won't they? love between Sam and Sadie had me on tenterhooks right until the end. The author brilliantly weaves in a lot of heavy issues (cancer, race, disability, US shootings, bereavement) without ever becoming preachy or taking away from the pure, simple story of friendship and bonds. I adored this book and will reread it often.

Oh my lord, this book is so wonderful. It's so original, innovative, romantic, moving - just a stunning read.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC to review. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This book deserves all the praise it is getting. If I could afford to, I would buy 10 copies for everyone I know would love this because I have been shouting about it so much.

Best book I've read in 2022. Will be recommending to everyone. All characters are well-developed and multidimensional. Even the avatars are multidimensional. I'm a big video games fan but I would still recommend this to anyone who wasn't.

I absolutely ADORED this book. The characters are complex and messy making them feel totally relatable. I loved how this love story spanned over so many years and you could see just how complex friendships and relationships can be.

Best book I've read this year, as a bookseller I have promoted it hugely and can't wait for the PB publication and film. Read it!

A quirky book that takes the world of video games, and characters immersed in that world, and brings the story flying off the page. Evocative, nostalgic, vivid and page turning. Loved it.

I adored Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Initially intrigued by its Shakespearean title, further tempted by the subject matter - video game development - and finally sucked in by being given a copy by NetGalley, I devoured this in a few short reads. The characters are well-realised and infuriatingly human - I did yell at my Kindle more than once 'JUST SPEAK TO EACH OTHER ALREADY!' - so you can't help but root for their success. A major event happens toward the end of the book which is shocking and extremely well-captured, but then I feel like the book rushes to wrap itself up. Zevin is so brilliant at writing these characters, that I felt I wanted more time to wallow in the after-effects of the final cataclysm, to discover how each of the leads lives in the wake of it.

So much love for this book - Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow understandably took the book world by storm when it came out and Im glad I was there at the beginning. A love story, an homage to gaming, all the joys of childhood friendships growing into something deeper and more meaningful; this book has it all.
Thanks for letting me read it so early, I have been singing its praises ever since!

This is a very unique novel. Seeing Sadie and Sam grow from adolescence to adulthood. The setting is perfect for modern day as the gaming industry is huge and popular.
A great read !

Overlong but rather fascinating story about gamers, gaming and love.

My feelings about this book changed several times during the reading. Halfway through I thought it might be drawing to a close, but then moved on. While at times it did feel overlong, by the time I finished it did feel as though the whole story was told, character arcs had been played.

From childhood, to student days, to working in the world in their field, this book gives us two very different gamers/games producers. As a complete non-gamer myself, it was a surprise that I rather liked reading about the subject, but I have previously loved Zevin and trust her as a writer to bring a story to life. That of Sadie and Sam is another such well-realised story.

Meeting in a hospital as pre-teens, Sadie is visiting her sister undergoing treatment when she accidentally meets and befriends the silent Sam, recovering from a car accident. She brings him to life where nothing else was working, and is asked to return to continue to help him. They play and talk about computer games. Years later, a chance meeting sets off a new phase in their relationship while Sadie is beginning to create her own computer games for her college studies.

The book then guides us through their adult years and games together, their relationships, their past, their own emotional traumas, some of which are shared and some kept away from the other. A lot of their story takes place in games worlds which - for someone like me - felt unreal in their creation but useful as metaphor. It was hard to picture the game world of Ichigo in some ways, but I did love watching the creative process and effort taken to put a new game together.

I wasn't sure how I felt about Marx, roommate to Sam in college who takes on so much without complaint, appearing almost saint-like in my eyes. Dov is pretty repulsive but a great character, a professor whose opinion is the only one that counts, but who still manages to act as mentor and guide despite everything that goes on in the narrative.

There are some shocking moments that were unforeseen, some very apt points made about real-world politics and the repercussions of commenting on these, and ultimately a satisfying close to Sadie and Sam's lifelong story arc.

It's smart, may not be for everyone, but was a good read I won't forget.

With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample reading copy.

An excellent novel, which manages to be a page-turner and profoundly moving at the same time. It is set in the world of gaming, which is not something I know a great deal about, but the author managed to convey what gaming means to those who love it, as well as giving a sense of how it feels to play games and be immersed in their stories. Looking forward to reading more from this author.

I really enjoyed Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow! The writing was super engaging and I loved that the characters were complex. I also really appreciated the discussions around different topics, such as Women in Tech, especially in the gaming industry, but this is only one of many other topics that were brought up during the novel.

It is epic and it is heart-breaking and definitely worth the time!

Loved loved loved this book. I’m not a gamer but I really don’t think you need to be to read this one. It’s a beautiful story that I couldn’t put down and devoured in 2 days!

TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW is, indeed, not a romance but is a book about love.

When Sam Maser is twelve and Sadie Green is eleven, they meet in hospital. Sam is enduring a series of operations to stabilise his foot, which was crushed in a car accident that killed his mother; Sadie is feeling lost, and ignored by her parents as her sister is treated for leukemia. They meet in the gaming room, and become inseparable friends, until they do not speak again for six years.

When they meet again, with Sam in Harvard and Sadie attending MIT, Sam decides they will make a video game together, and sets their lives on course so they become Mazer/Green, a duo of famous video game designers and producers. They love each other, but are not in love with each other, and they will despise each other more than once.

If you are a creator, this book will hit several tender spots of decisions that you've likely asked yourself at some point or another: where is the intersection between making art and making money? Are you a sell-out if you take the big money? Is something truly yours if you're not given credit for it? Have you made great art if people hate it?

It's also, at its heart, a novel of gigantic miscommunication between characters. No matter how much you love someone, no matter how much your life is intertwined with theirs, no matter how long you've known them: you can never truly know someone as you are only privy to the thoughts and explanations they give you. None of us can truly know what someone is actually thinking and feeling in their head, and it can lead to truly devastating assumptions that can fester and destroy friendships and relationships over the years.

It's an aching, magnificent portrayal about how friendships are just as important, if perhaps sometimes more important than relationships, and how a great creative partnership is a truly rare thing. I feel this is the kind of novel that deserves a reread, now that you know all the secrets and explanations revealed throughout the narrative, and I felt utterly emotionally wrecked by the end.

(And, of course, the thing that happens about 100 pages before the end devastated me.)