Every Day by David Levithan

Every Day

by David Levithan

From the genius of David Levithan, co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, comes a love story like no other you've read before.

Each morning, A wakes up in a different body. There’s never any warning about who it will be, but A is used to that. Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

And that’s fine – until A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with – every day …

A stunningly original novel that will make you view the world from a different perspective. You can also read Rhiannon's side of the story in Another Day.

Levithan’s powerful novel explores the complexities of first love in a unique way that will captivate anybody who loved Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park and Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun.

David is the New York Times best-selling author of Boy Meets Boy and Marly’s Ghost. While among his many collaborations are Will Grayson, Will Grayson with Fault in Our Stars author John Green. David's latest collaboration with Rachel Cohn, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily, was picked by Zoella for her Book Club with WHSmiths. David is also a highly respected children’s book editor, whose list includes many luminaries of children’s literature, including Garth Nix, Libba Bray and Suzanne Collins. He lives and works in New York.

Reviewed by Angie on

4 of 5 stars

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Can you imagine waking up in a different body every single day? How about falling in love knowing you'll be a in a different body the next day? Or having someone fall in love with you knowing you'll be different tomorrow? That is what A experiences in Every Day. Every day he's someone new, but also himself (I'm just assuming A is male for simplicity's sake, but he's really genderless in some ways). A has to dig through the body's memories so that he can seamlessly go about their day. Then he meets Rhiannon when he's in her boyfriend's body. A has never felt this way about anyone before, and isn't willing to let it go.

Every Day was really great. The concept is super unique and explained really well. There's nothing complicated or mind boggling about A's situation. It just is what it is. It's all he's ever known. A is careful not to disrupt anyone's lives while he's in them, but that's something he also screws up after meeting Rhiannon. Now a boy thinks he's been possessed by the devil, and A doesn't quite know how to make that go away. His priority is getting to know Rhiannon better and having her get to know him, and hopefully making a relationship work. I wanted them to work so badly!

A seems like a wonderful person, despite all of the crappy people he's been over the years. But I suppose, A has also seen and experienced a lot of stuff and doesn't want to be like those crappy people. It would be all to easy to take advantage and do all kinds of reckless things, since he won't have to live with the consequences. However, A does try to be helpful if he notices something terribly wrong. It's just a really interesting thing to think about, because what would you do if you had a different life every day? I'm not sure.

I really enjoyed Every Day. Each chapter is something new, since A inhabits a different body. Sometimes he has to go through their routine for the day, others he finds an excuse to run off and meet with Rhiannon. Sometimes he's a boy, or a girl, or gay, or straight, or trans, or fat, or sexy, or black, or Hispanic, rich, poor, happy, sad, injured, blind. All kinds of different people, so while A is always focused on being with Rhiannon it never felt repetitive to me because there's always something new to adapt to.

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