today, tonight, tomorrow book review
đź’if you could spend 24 hours with any fictional character, who would you choose?
“but sometimes i get this strange feeling, an ache not for something i miss, but for something i’ve never known.”
i started today tonight tomorrow immediately after i finished we can’t keep meeting like this, and i repeat: how have i not read rachel lynn solomon sooner??? i LOVED this one so much, i stayed up until 1am reading it in a single night. our main characters, rowan and neil, are academic rivals, and rowan is determined to beat neil one more time: in the city-wide senior scavenger hunt. more than just an amazing (!!) enemies to lovers, this book was also an immersive ode to seattle that was set in a 24 hour time frame (which is always the coolest to read, tbh.)
another one of the coolest things about this book is that our main character, rowan, is literally a teenage romance novelist!!! what! i’ve read books about teenage writers but a romance novelist. a romance novelist!!! i love how this book, a romance itself, tackled the social idea that romance novels are worth less and are less valuable forms of literature. it was so beautiful how rowan found solace in her romance books. and rowan’s interactions with neil too!! they were so easy to root for, and i adored them.
considering it was set in a single day, i also loved the character development that still occurred. so much took place, but it was still a perfect balance of plot and characters!! the talent it takes to write a complex story in a 24 hour span- like i was genuinely impressed. i wouldn’t have changed a thing! i also appreciated the ownvoices jewish rep, and it was great to see that representation!! genuinely this whole book brought me so much joy.
I, personally, air on the side of LOVING those strange, flawed characters, even those I disagree with. Sometimes (not always) but sometimes I even *love* disagreeing with my characters. I love the fight, and the INTERNAL conflict. Nothing like a good internal conflict.
Those types of characters challenge me, get me to think outside my wheelhouse. But of course, our protagonists still need charm, wit and “likability” right? Because, who wants to spend 300/400 pages in the mind of someone they despise?
Is it when you can’t empathize with them? When you don’t understand what they want? What is it? What makes you say, nope~ this protagonist is NOT for me?
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