About this book
(blurb from Exclusive Books)
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world — of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love – making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.
Their collaborations make them superstars. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success- Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect- to be loved and to love.
My thoughts:
My thoughts:If you are not a gamer – or if you’re not into “video games”, please don’t fret – or give this book a miss simply because of those reasons.
As the blurb states “This is not a romance, but it is about love”. It is a story about relationships and sharing and creating something exceptional. It is a story addressing uneasy stereotypes and uncomfortable topics like the patriarchy, race, gun violence, and disability. Written with such sensitive care and in-depth insights. It is about lifelong friendships and the importance of communication. It is just beautiful and heart-breaking and had me enthralled right from the start. No wonder that “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” has been nominated as Barnes & Noble’s “Book of the Year”.
A few favourite quotes:
“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
“Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve.”
“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen.”
• Creatives
• 80’s (and 90’s) Nostalgia
• Character driven
• Complex relationships
• Brilliant storytelling
I must have been stranded on another planet because I was quite surprised to read that this is Gabrielle Zevin’s 10th book! So, I have nine books to add to my reading list.
Oh, and I’ve been having so much fun with this! Check out my #Tomorrowx3 Avatar! Create yours here: https://shop.penguin.co.uk/pages/tomorrowx3#avatar
And, as a bonus – do check out Gabrielle Zevin’s website to play “EmilyBlaster”! https://gabriellezevin.com/emilyblastergame
I nearly died when I saw this photo on there as well!
RRR (Roelia Reads Rating) 5/5
With thanks to Exclusive Books for the opportunity to read this book.
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