A is a different person every day. Different gender, different surroundings, different lifestyle; every single day of A’s life has been like this and, for the most part, its normal. Or as normal as it can get when you don’t know who you are!
After years of sleepwalking through other people’s lives, A inhabits Justin’s body and meets Rhiannon, Justin’s girlfriend. For the first time, A puts his life before the life of the person who owns the body. For the first time, A wants to be the same person all the time.
I bought a (signed!) copy of Every Day and all the way home on the train I kept looking at it, the bright orange cover glowing through the bag, reaching out to me as if to say “read me”. So I obliged and started it as soon as I got home.
The idea of this book appealed to me greatly and I personally think that it is a stroke of genius. The day in which A was Justin was over quicker than I expected, so I was left feeling quite worried about what the rest of the book would hold. Levithan, however, did not disappoint. The journey of A and Rhiannon and all of the people A encounters is fascinating and the difficulties they face seem real, even if the situations can’t be.
Through the book, I got closer to A and Rhiannon and felt that some of their decisions made me want to shout, “You’re going the wrong way!”.
My initial feeling after reading Every Day is that I’m curious to read Another Day (the sequel and told from Rhiannon’s point of view) as I thought that Rhiannon’s views were broadcast quite widely in this book, but I’ll just have to read it and find out...
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