Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

This was a miss for me. I liked the premise and I loved Marx, but a lot of this book annoyed me. The dialogue was flat and I don't know if that's because Sam and Sadie are just terrible characters or if it was the writing itself. I liked the games and the familiar feeling of playing games in the late 90's and early 2000's and I could picture Ichigo in my head. The outline of the book was interesting. I just hated Sam and Sadie and Dov. Sam would rather be in his feelings about his chronic pain than have any sort of healthy communication with the people in his life. Sadie was just self-centered and didn't deserve Marx. And Dov was a sexual predator. The constant miscommunication reminded me of Normal People (though at least Zevin understands punctuation...). If I have to keep being reminded that Sam and Sadie have this deep connection because they never have any scenes where they are connecting, it just makes me not care about them.