There’s a lot in this that I normally wouldn’t like and though I often found myself frustrated with what was happening in the story, I was surprised to find myself fully invested in Sam and Sadie from the beginning. There are actually plenty of reasons that I think readers won’t like this and I get it. I honestly don’t know if there’s anything I could say that other people haven’t already but you know I’m here to write my essay! It’s been quite a while since I’ve read any literary fiction, and though this is my first book by Zevin, it’s safe to say that she has a new fan in me and it certainly won’t be my last! And that’s why I loved this book so much. This book is tragically sad and painful and at times unpleasant to endure but it will make you feel EVERYTHING, AND EVERYTHING, AND EVERYTHING. She turned me into this raging, ugly crying, hot mess of a human with the intensity of the emotion she evokes throughout this story. Zevin pulled me in right from the beginning and didn’t let go until the very end. And YET, I seem to have found myself loving this book. Semi-love triangles, toxic relationships, terribly unlikeable characters who consistently make poor decisions, and a horrendous lack of communication between characters. TL DR: So much of this book is full of things that I hate. The things she has to put up with from me! 😂 ILY, friend! 🫣 Not only did I finish ahead, but I couldn’t stop telling her how much I cried and hurt while reading. I buddy-read this with Leslie but I was a terrible buddy reader this time because after I got to a certain % on the third day of our read, I found myself physically unable to stop and I ended up finishing the book way ahead of her. ⚠️ CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGSĬhildhood cancer, suicide (graphic, on-page), student-teacher relationship, abuse, sexism, racism, parental death, car accident, workplace shooting
In this exhilarating novel two friends-often in love, but never lovers-come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green.
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