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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
May. 20th, 2024 06:29 pmPeople have been recommending Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin to me for a while, and then it was picked for our next family book club meeting...
I read it in two days over the weekend - and I have complicated thoughts about it.
In a nutshell, I started out wanting to love it but it wouldn't let me. I ended up wanting to hate it but it wouldn't let me do that either...
It felt very emotionally manipulative (I was affected by certain aspects but I could see what it was doing to achieve that and it annoyed me), it also felt very inconsistent in places, with lots of telling rather than showing, and a seeming lack of outlining (events/people/things kept being introduced out of nowhere and then we'd get a couple of pages of background to explain them and then they'd never appear again).
And then it utilised my all-time least favourite fiction trope...
But, even after that, it got me in the feels a couple more times.
So, yeah, complicated...
I really wanted to love it - and I tried really hard - and I know a lot of people do, so I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who should read this book and will really enjoy it. I'm just not one of them.
I read it in two days over the weekend - and I have complicated thoughts about it.
In a nutshell, I started out wanting to love it but it wouldn't let me. I ended up wanting to hate it but it wouldn't let me do that either...
It felt very emotionally manipulative (I was affected by certain aspects but I could see what it was doing to achieve that and it annoyed me), it also felt very inconsistent in places, with lots of telling rather than showing, and a seeming lack of outlining (events/people/things kept being introduced out of nowhere and then we'd get a couple of pages of background to explain them and then they'd never appear again).
And then it utilised my all-time least favourite fiction trope...
But, even after that, it got me in the feels a couple more times.
So, yeah, complicated...
I really wanted to love it - and I tried really hard - and I know a lot of people do, so I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who should read this book and will really enjoy it. I'm just not one of them.
