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A review by reader4evr
Every Day by David Levithan
4.0
It's been awhile since I read a book by David Levithan and after hearing him speak at a conference back in September about Every Day, I knew I had to pick this one up.
This is a really interesting concept of a book and I'm surprised it hasn't been published before.
A is just a complex character and I'm not sure if I could handle it the way they did. I'm glad the beginning part of the story included A's background with what he could remember and what types of bodies A inhabits. I liked the relationship that A had with Rhiannon even though it was very complicated at times. They almost had a long distance relationship in some sort of way.
I liked how some of the chapters/days were shorter than others with the back story of some of the bodies that they inhabitated. Some of the different people that A was in I wanted to know more about that particular person but some I just wanted it to be over with. The stories were sad with some of the kids that were depressed and I felt like too many of them were kind of like that. I've read some other reviews and I agree that parts of the books were kind of "preachy" and I found myself rolling my eyes.
There were some parts that had me gasping because I didn't expect some of the things that happened to A to have happened. I wish that I could write about them but I don't want to spoil it :-)
At the end I kind of felt like this book could be a stand alone or it could be a series (I know he said at the conference that he did that on purpose because he wasn't sure if he wanted to continue on with A's story).
This is a really interesting concept of a book and I'm surprised it hasn't been published before.
A is just a complex character and I'm not sure if I could handle it the way they did. I'm glad the beginning part of the story included A's background with what he could remember and what types of bodies A inhabits. I liked the relationship that A had with Rhiannon even though it was very complicated at times. They almost had a long distance relationship in some sort of way.
I liked how some of the chapters/days were shorter than others with the back story of some of the bodies that they inhabitated. Some of the different people that A was in I wanted to know more about that particular person but some I just wanted it to be over with. The stories were sad with some of the kids that were depressed and I felt like too many of them were kind of like that. I've read some other reviews and I agree that parts of the books were kind of "preachy" and I found myself rolling my eyes.
There were some parts that had me gasping because I didn't expect some of the things that happened to A to have happened. I wish that I could write about them but I don't want to spoil it :-)
At the end I kind of felt like this book could be a stand alone or it could be a series (I know he said at the conference that he did that on purpose because he wasn't sure if he wanted to continue on with A's story).