Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

We can start on a positive note, I thank the stars, the universe, and the damn galaxy that Sadie and Sam did not end up together. It confuses me why they kept on insisting they were friends when they felt more like co-workers. It confused me more how they had this “thing” where they could never date because they have a special work relationship, but they barely demonstrated that. All they did after Ichigo was disagree on 90% of things. I’m pretty sure Sadie disagreed more with Sam than Dov, and that says a lot. Another positive is everything before the launch of Ichigo, everything else was frustrating.

Despite this book being 400 pages, somehow the ending felt rushed and unsatisfying, especially on the character development. I specifically want to talk about how unfair the writing seemed to Sam and Sadie, with heavy emphasis on Sadie, because they did her dirty.

I felt a sort of preference from the author’s end for Sam’s characterization, because yes, even if you put a character through hell you can still tell when more thought was put into them than other characters. I felt that the whole time I read Sam’s chapters and even approaching the end I felt he had the better end of the stick. Chapters would be dedicated to giving his backstory with Anna, we stopped for paragraphs to know about his background, he was the kid with the accident, poor financial stability, later amputee and then there’s Sadie. Even the own story expressed how Sam is more likable, maybe you were intentionally supposed to like Sam more than Sadie which f that were the case I would have preferred not having chapters with Sadie because I hate how things went for her.

Surprisingly I like Sadie, sometimes this book was doing the impossible to make you dislike her, especially with the Marx plot line. I felt that every chapter with Sadie could only exist if it related to a love aspect. If it wasn’t Sam, it was Dov, if it wasn’t Dov it was Marx, and if you think it’s about no one, well actually, it’s about Sam. Even her pregnancy didn’t feel like it was about her, it was about Sam and how he needed her to finish the game. After Marx’s death you don’t get much of Sadie if it isn’t through Sam, and that feels dirty. I’m not going to talk about Dov because she glosses over him straight to a more amicable relationship and I don’t know how to feel about that at this moment, which feels like another thing that was supposed to make you dislike her. Sadly, for me to talk more about Sadie, I need to talk about Marx.

The moment he died, I rolled my eyes. Marx was used as shock value, that is disappointing. I am still trying to figure out why his death was necessary, the only reason cannot be “because Sadie needed to grieve” she had a sick sister, you couldn’t work something around that? I don’t understand why make her pregnant and then kill the father, all these plot points are happening near the end of the book, and it felt like Sadie could not catch a break. You had 400 pages to work around that, and you did it after 250 pages of making her have a love interest, again, for the third time. Did Marx die for Sam to swoop in and claim the love of her life? No, and that would have been stupid to do, but it’s worth mentioning. Did he die to show how valuable he was to the company? Not really because Sam did swoop in and not only did they not go bankrupt, but the game went well. Did Sadie get any development from Marx’s death? Well, she became depressed, she finished her work before giving birth and had postpartum depression on top of the already existing depression. Did it bring Sam and Sadie closer? No, Sam didn’t see Sadie for five years. And to top it all off, Sadie’s ending. She decides to take up Dov’s offer in giving classes while he’s gone. I know I said I would gloss over him, but man is it hard to not feel disappointed with that ending for her.