Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow question

This book had such a profound impact on me. Sadie, Sam, and Marx all had incredible character development. I really struggled to take breaks from reading, I was so immersed. I don't have any background in video game development, but years of playing them. That said, I felt like the game development and plots were realistic and I absolutely would have loved to play their games if they existed.
When I finished it though, I needed to take a break because it has been over a decade since I read anything that made me feel such intense emotions. I loved the platonic friendship of Sadie and Sam deeply, I don't often find books that depict male/female friendship across decades that remains platonic. I experienced warmth, happiness, and genuine sorrow over this book. I wept like a child at several points.

I can understand how a reader could conclude the characters didn't age and mature, but I disagree. I felt like the characters expressed realistic emotions, especially when experiencing major life events such as disability, breakups, deaths, and success. I think there's often a misconception of maturity that expects people to think and act logically, but studying psychology has shown me that maturity can be making mistakes, feeling your emotions, and learning from the situation to navigate future mishaps. If two people experiencing conflict can still come together and find a resolution that shows maturity. While I agree that several conflicts were dragged on for longer than may have been necessary, that end conflict-resolution still occurred.
I also felt their (Sadie & Sam specifically) closeness and shared history allowed for more humorous head-butting, but often the group is still able to resolve major issues once discussed.

Sergio wrote: "So recently for our book club, a member recommended this book for us to read. When we had our discussion last week, all but one person did not like this book. What was weird was that we all had the..."

Hype. Blind hype. They got me. Book was terrible.

I agree the book was overhyped. Felt like a Young Adult novel that didn’t move me.

This book reminds me of any Sally Rooney novel, where the characters all have some kind of grave fault. The point of reading these is not to like the characters but to go through the motions of these emotions and gather understanding and empathy. The reason I loved the story was because it fully immersed me into their lives and what each went through. All of the insecurities, the sense of comfort they found within each-other, the jealousy that arises and their successes. Some books may have a great plot but lack the palpable feelings this book had, some people don’t enjoy reads like this as much which is understandable. Many of us are rather direct and to the point, which makes exploring the emotional impact of stories like this seem rather tedious and boring. Which makes your feelings towards the story very valid as it is a trauma dump of sorts. Hope this helps!