A review by raymanesque
Every Day by David Levithan

1.0

The premise is amazing: What would life be like if you woke up in a different person's body every day? Unfortunately, the author somehow found a way to completely fail to explore the potential of that world, and developed characters that are two dimensional, not believable, and agitating. The book reads like a heavy handed and overly intentional commentary on identity and appears to sacrifice many qualities of what make a book enjoyable to read in unnecessary service to this pretext. The premise suits discussion of these important topics but would have functioned much better if made more subtly and left to the reader, instead of being continually waxed poetically through the internal exposition of the intolerable protagonist at the expense of any semblance of quality writing. The book is SO bad that it's almost worth reading just to experience. I think the premise and its commentary would have worked much better as a blog post than a full novel