Mañana, y mañana, y mañana

Sadie and Sam are old childhood friends who bump into each other while both are in college. As children they had spent a short but intense time together, sitting in a hospital room, playing video games. Just that little spark their random meeting reignites their turbulent friendship. And so there lifes end up entangled in a complicated relationship of platonic love, rivalry, support and fighting, long times of cool abscense and short intense periods of fruitful coworking. All of this is connected by the main character's love for computer games, as they try to establish a video game company.

This story was very well written and constructed, sucking you right in, although nothing much happens except for you know humans. It has a sharp humor to it, and I enjoyed every minute.

A short warning, though: The main characters Sam and Sadie are not likeable at all. They are complicated, ambitious and sometimes outright mean to each other. You'll end up asking the empty room in which you happen to be while reading: "Why are you like this?". But I still ended up rooting for those two weird people and most importandly their friendship, which is not cosy but stormy, to say the least. So, but maybe that is love? Learning to accept one another, weathering the storm?

A last note: This book deserves a content warning for abusive relationships and sexual abuse...

No tenía ni idea de lo que iba a leer, solo sabía que era bueno y que iba de videojuegos, había referencias y eso. Así que imaginé que sería algo de ciencia ficción tipo "Ready player one", iba yo muy despistado 😅.

Pero lo he disfrutado mucho mucho, es una novela, que por supuesto va de la vida misma, y de sus personajes, y que gira en torno a los videojuegos, que disfrutarás más si has jugado y conoces las referencias, pero que tampoco son necesarias.

Me ha tenido muy enganchado, MUY bien escrita, de verdad. Se nota que hay un trabajazo detrás, de personajes que evolucionan y cambian y son verosímiles, y de hilar cosas, para soltar información en el momento adecuado, con desplazamientos en el tiempo que no se sienten como flashbacks/flashforwards típicos (de esos que interrumpen la narración para darte una pieza que justo es necesaria para avanzar la trama) sino muy bien integrados, además del trabajo de documentación sobre el tema.

También me ha gustado mucho que toma riesgos, intenta innovar en formatos, en los títulos de cada parte, en estilos... Y conseguir unir todo esto, consiguiendo que cada cosa aporte en lugar de restar...

En definitiva, me parece una novela muy bien atada, y lo he disfrutado muchísimo. Recomendada!

structurally flexible. engaging characters. lightly nostalgic (but not too much!). devoured in 4 days: it was enjoyable!

it was sad, at times. i think i enjoyed all characters? except for probably dov. the rendition of relationships over such a span of time is something i don't recall ever reading. the internal monologues and renditions of conflicts from different points of view were something special, i feel

A wonderfully written story about the adult years of growing up, on a backdrop of the intense creative processes of video game design. I want these games to be real. I want to feel the characters expression through their art.

There are books where it’s a novel situation played out through understandable and straightforward characters. And then there are books where you have no idea how someone can keep so many deep actors in their head, you wonder if they were real people. Each character with their own motivations, and perspective. Sometimes I cheered for them. Sometimes I hated them. Always I loved them.

In any case, it’s a beautiful story. Heartbreaking and tragic.