[MPOV] Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

My rating: 3/5

Goodreads rating: 4.13/5
Published: July 5, 2022
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Genre: Contemporary romance

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

This book somehow reminds me of the movie, Ready Player One, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Cline. I have not read that book, but I've enjoyed the movie very much. I could easily imagine the characters in this book whilst reading with actors from Ready Player One, LOL! I know some were Asian, but it's ok for me that they looked Caucasian. 

I do find that I get lost and flipped through it whenever there are jargons of techs and video games in it. I know that's the gist of the story but it's just me not able to grasp it. Also, the story does go back and forth so I had to reread to realize it's a throwback at times. The only gripe I didn't like was the touch of politics and world issues which were added nonchalantly in the games. Other than that, it truly was a nicely written story about 2 best friends from young to eternity, living through their imperfect lives trying to support each other whilst loving them silently. I get that it's totally relatable and something that most of us would treasure especially solid friendship in a chaotic world we are living in right now. I did anticipate it would somehow end as such though I was hoping for a better one LOL! Overall, it was an enjoyable read amidst the video games blitz.

Thanks to Revitalize Books for lending me this copy in return for my honest review.