4.5 stars

Thank you to Knopf for the gifted ARC.

“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.”

Gabrielle Zevin blew me out of the water with her beautiful writing style in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. While there is a focus on video games, this is absolutely still a book to read if you’re not a gamer. I was fully immersed into this story through the friendships and deep emotions over the course of a journey with hardship, pain, success, vulnerability, grief, and rebirth. While this novel is slow-paced, it’s perfect for savoring such an incredible story. There were some parts that could have been edited down in my opinion (some of the beginning background info and the game immersion toward the end), but everything else in this book was absolute perfection.