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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

"When life-long friends, Sadie Green and Sam Masur decide to take a chance and work together to create a video game, they know they're creating something truly special. What follows is a story full of wins, losses, love, lies, friendship, betrayals and the list goes on. It's impossible to properly describe this book. It's one of those stories that you have to read to understand and appreciate."  

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Pros: Marx is a genuinely good, caring, kind person and friend/The NPC part of this novel had me close to tears. It was heart breaking and beautiful. 

Cons: A lot of the drama could have been avoided if the characters were just honest with each other but, then there'd be no conflict/Sadie and Sam drove me a little insane and I wanted to smack them both at times. 

Full Review: 

Sadie Green first meets Samson Masur in a Children's hospitals in California. Sadie's sister is battling Leukemia, while Sam has gone through multiple surgeries to try and repair his crushed foot, the result of a horrific car accident. They spend hundreds of hours together, playing video games and learning everything they can about one another. When Sadie first meets Sam, the doctors are astonished, since he hasn't said a word to anyone since coming to the hopsital.

When Sadie decides to use her time spent with Sam as a way to meet her community service requirement for her Bat Mitzvah, she feels a little guilty. Of course, when she ends up spending a total of 600 + hours with Sam, it's obvious that they're real, true, genuine friends and will be for life. 

When Sam finds out about the Community Service, he's devastated, feeling like nothing more than a charity case. He says he never wants to see Sadie again. That all changes years later when they're both college students in Boston. Sadie is at MIT, majoring in Game Design and Sam is at Harvard, majoring in Drafting. They run into each other at the Harvard Square T-Stop and all the years of silence and animostiy just fall away. 

Soon, they're best friends again and they decide to combine their mututal love of video games and impressive intelligence into creating a new video game. It'll be something big, bold, truly world changing. And they're successful. That success will change their lives and everyone around them in astounding, dramatic and painful ways.  

This book was complex, deep and devastating all at once. The characters were flawed and frustrating and a lot of drama could have been avoided if everyone was just honest with one another or made better life choices but isn't that what life is all about? The choices we make, down to the smallest, most seemingly insignificant detail can ripple out and change our lives in the most profound ways. 

I'd been looking forward to reading this book for a long time and I was not disappointed. 

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