Author: David Levithan
Publisher/Year: Knopf Books, 2012
Series: none
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Every Day is the story of this amorphous being known as A, who wakes up in the body of someone new every single day. It's always been this way, and A does not know why. One day in the body of a shallow, negligent boy named Justin, A meets a girl named Rhiannon and falls hopelessly in love. A then vows to do everything possible to be with her, despite the issue of being a different person everyday.
This book started out a bit slow, describing A falling in love with Rhiannon. I had to push myself to go further because the main question of the book is "where is this story line going?". It really did get better. The main aspect that the book explores is can we really love someone for who they are, despite what they look like? Whether they are male or female, fat or thin, etc? The main plot lines include A's relationship with Rhiannon, the after effects A has had on a boy named Nathan, and the question of whether or not A could stay in one body, or better yet, should A stay in a body. David Levithan wrote a very interesting book, but there were only so many inevitable places the book could go so the ending was expected if not necessary. Levithan does actually redeem some characters thought lost by the end which was unexpected. More food for thought that the book touched upon was the idea that when living another person's life day to day gives the reader perspective on how many people live in many different ways, not one person is the same.
I give this book 3 out of 5 stars as it was interesting, but it probably won't be a profound book that I remember forever.
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