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Book Review, Fiction

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by  Gabrielle Zevin ~ Book Review

Morgan

Knopf Publishing Group
Fiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪.5

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow closely followed the friendship of Sam and Sadie, starting when they met in the hospital as kids. The two quickly bonded over their love for video games, but fell out of touch until they ran into each other in Boston while they were both in college. They pick things up exactly where they left off and soon find themselves creators of the smash hit video game, Ichigo.

Zevin’s writing fully immersed me into Sam and Sadie’s reality. There is so much detail about their lives, feelings, and intricate relationships with other people that I felt like I truly knew them and understood their motivations. They were interesting and flawed and I thoroughly enjoyed the ebbs and flows of their friendship as they navigated their success together.

There was a lot of discussion of the mechanics and intricacies of video games which did get a little old for me by the end. I understand that that was the primary topic of this book, but I could have gone for a more general approach to the subject matter.

This writing style reminded me somewhat of Sally Rooney, with the same heavy focus on depth of character development.

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Book Review, Fiction, mystery

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley ~ Book Review

Morgan

William Morrow
Mystery
Release Date: February 22, 2022
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪

I love a thriller with a creepy, atmospheric, anthropomorphic setting. When Jess arrives to visit her brother Ben at his new apartment, that’s exactly what she finds in his building. What she doesn’t find is Ben. Jess begins to question the other residents, trying to ascertain what could have happened between her last phone message from Ben and his disappearance.

There were a lot of characters, each of whom narrated different chapters, and it was hard for me to keep track of them all. Getting so many points of view also made the story move really slowly, since we saw how every character perceived the same events.

I will say that the sinister activities at the heart of this story were very unique compared to the numerous other thrillers I’ve read, but I would definitely classify this as more of a ‘mystery’ than a thriller (there’s a very distinct difference in my mind between the two).

The setting and character motivations of The Paris Apartment were interesting, but I wished things moved faster.

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