Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I was really excited to read this book after hearing all the great things about it. While I did really enjoy it I feel it fell short of my expectations; but that is because I expected a 5 star book.

I really enjoyed the prose of this book, the in depth/3D characters, and the symbolism/metaphors. While I did not necessarily ‘like' the characters themselves, I did like their flaws, fullness, and perspective. Zevin definitely can write very realistic characters. I love videogames and I really liked to hear their development of all their games and imagine what it would be like to play them, especially Icharo.

Where I feel it let me down was in the plot. While the plot was solid and moved at a fitting pace I feel that it was fairly predictable and a little dull. I think part of that can be attributed to the fact I am used to the typical SF/F plots that have speculative/unrealistic plot points in them, so I feel I should not knock it too much for being a realistic fiction.

Overall I enjoyed the character study as well as a peek into a fictional videogame world.