Every Day

Every Day by David Levithan

by Joe D

The book Every Day always had me reading more to find out what happens next. I thought the book was fascinating, and easily keeps any reader engaged. The book is almost like several short stories compressed into one book.

Every Day is not really about a specific person but a living conscience. This conscience calls itself “A”. Ever since A can remember it has always woken up in the body of a new person its age, male or female. It goes about living this person's life for only one day. Each day at midnight, when A falls asleep, it wakes up in a new body and continues to live on with their life. A is now about 16 years old and has learned to not get attached with other people's life, for A has to leave the body the next day. That is until he meets this girl who changes him forever, Rhiannon. A does everything he can to make sure that he can see her again, getting himself into tough situations along the way.

I really did like the book, but I didn’t love it. This book has several strengths, for example, it has a perspective of every kind of person. Throughout the book, A is in the bodies of males, females, skinny people, overweight people, depressed people, drug addicted people, and about any other type of person you can think of. I think this is a huge strength to any book, because it can attract any type of reader. A weakness of the book is that A the main character, falls into a routine in the book which makes it a little slow and boring.

Overall, I enjoyed reading Every Day and I would suggest reading this if anyone has time and was looking for something good to read.