Every Day

Every Day Book Review

by Chase D

This book is about a person named “A” and their unique everyday life. A wakes up in a new body every day. But not just a new body, someone else’s body. Every day, A wakes up and has to figure out who the person is, how he or she acts, who their friends are, what relationships are they involved in, and much more, in order to get through the day without attracting attention. The books opens to a day in which A wakes up in the body of a teenage boy named Justin. Immediately, A is able to figure out what kind of person Justin is by his room. As the day progresses, A explores Justin’s life as carefully as possible. That is, until A meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. A falls into a spiral of breaking their rules that they had once put in place to prevent deviation from a person’s everyday life. They break all of the rules and ditch school to go to the beach with Rhiannon, who thinks she is with Justin. The rest of the book is A trying to stay in touch with Rhiannon and convincing her that it wasn’t Justin that day at the beach and that A is a different person every day.

I agree with this quote from A.

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”

-David Levithan, Every Day

It is the best feeling in the world and David Levithan hit it dead on. In my opinion, he explained an unexplainable feeling with great accuracy.

I recommend this book to everyone that has ever enjoyed reading at some point in their life. I am not a huge fan of reading but this book is outstanding. I have never read anything like it. What kept me reading was A’s struggle to get to Rhiannon. The constant obstacles A had to surpass in order to get back to her were interesting and sometimes funny. Every Day is very well written and I am looking forward to reading more of his books.