Book Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin

Book title: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Genre: Literary fiction
Published: July 5, 2022
482 pages
My rating: 3/5

“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.”

On a cold December day of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur sees his childhood friend Sadie Green at a crowded train station and calls her name. Their reunion sets off a collaboration that launches them to fame and leads to a decades-long tale of friendship and rivalry.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is Gabrielle Zevin’s literary fiction. The story follows the two main characters, Sam and Sadie, from their childhood in the 1980’s when they meet and bond while playing video games to the 1990’s and the early 2000’s when they start a company that produces video games, some of them huge successes, others not so much.

Snippets from the Life of an Author

I've been busy with the third draft of my modern Pride and Prejudice retelling. Last week, I finished the main edits, and now I'm reading the draft one more time before it goes to copy editor in May. I'm so excited to share this book with the world!

If you want to see what more I've been up to recently, check out the writing vlog below:

Book Review: Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

Book title: Ruthless Vows
Author: Rebecca Ross
Genre: YA fantasy
Published: December 26, 2023
420 pages
My rating: 4/5

“Sometimes,” Iris began, “I don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.”

Iris Winnow has returned home without her husband, Roman Kitt. Her hometown Oath continues to live in denial, unconcerned of the war between gods waging closer and closer to the city. When Iris is given the chance to return to the front, she once again heads westward despite the danger, determined to tell the truth of the war and to find Roman. On the other side of the enemy lines, Roman wakes up, healed by god Dacre but with no memories. He begins to work as a war correspondent for Dacre, but when a letter arrives beneath his wardrobe door, he is once again drawn to his mysterious pen pal.

Ruthless Vows is the second book in Rebecca Ross’s young adult fantasy duology Letters of Enchantment. I loved the first book, Divine Rivals, and I gave it four and a half stars. This book picks up a few weeks after the events of the first book. Iris and Roman are separated, and they need to find their way back together and to end the war between the gods. There’s less romance and a lot more fantasy warplot in this book. We also get a lot more scenes and chapters from Roman’s point of view. Personally, I would have preferred to see more of Iris’ point of view, and that’s one of the reasons why I didn’t like this book as much as Divine Rivals.

March Wrap-Up and April Hopefuls

March Reads

March Wrap-Up

• Finished: 5
• Started but not finished: 3
• Total pages read: 1,423
• Average rating: 4.33

I finished three novels in March: Stephanie Garber’s young adult fantasy A Curse for True Love (3.5/5 stars), Paulo Coelho’s literary fiction The Alchemist (5/5 stars), and Rebecca Ross’s young adult fantasy Divine Rivals (4.5/5 stars). You can find reviews of the books behind the links.

In terms of nonfiction, I finished the final two of my old high school textbooks. They were about language and literature.