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Every Day: The Graphic Novel by David Levithan

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amber_lea84's review against another edition

3.0

This had a really interesting concept: a person exists as just a consciousness, jumping from body to body every 24 hours - basically quantum-leap.

But this is one of those stories that leaves you with a lot of questions and no answers because the focus is entirely on a relationship between this body-hopping entity named "A" and a girl. It works, but it's really not enough. It also teases answers to why this is happening and then gives you nothing. It's frustrating that this story is just about this girl, especially since she keeps running from the protagonist. The relationship doesn't really seem all that special, and the real story should be more focused on how lonely it is to be this entity, or even better: what the hell is going on. This story is incomplete and could have easily been a whole series. I personally would have liked a quantum leap situation where you see what A learns about life as they body-hop. This was kind of a waste of a good idea.

thenextgenlib's review

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I loved the novel, but found that it didn’t translate into a graphic novel well. Too much internal monologue and thoughts that didn’t get shown in the graphic novel. It jumped into it that had I not read the novel I would be super confused reading the graphic novel. This one shouldn’t have been adapted IMO.

tx2its's review

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2.0

Reading 2023
Book 95: Every Day: The Graphic Novel by David Levithan

GN review #17 for June

Synopsis: Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.

Review: I don’t think I am a fan of Levithan’s work. I want to like his books, but they are not for me. This GN was a no. My rating 2.5⭐️.

behindthegossip's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

librerika's review against another edition

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medium-paced

1.0

Unevenly paced and really imbalanced in how well it handles the various identities the main character explores. Also, the whole premise is just creepy, and really kinda just amounts to stalking???

bookwormdaily's review against another edition

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3.5

my unusual type of graphic novel since I lean toward more fun and easy-to-digest when it comes to graphic novels.

this one is very unique because the story is about a human who wakes up in a different body every day, it could be any gender and any role in life. one day they wake up on someone’s boyfriend's life and they fall in love with her. during this book, we’ve been told about how their life is drawn to this woman, with all the eagerness and desperation to settle down and have a life.

meaningful, but also have some aspects that I do not agree with, especially the cheating tropes. it makes me didn’t really feel the ending of this graphic novel.