Every Day Review

Every Day by David Levithan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Imagine what your life would be like if every day you woke up in someone else’s body. You could never really establish friendships, never have parents of your own, and most of all, you could never fall in love. This is what life is like for A. This is the only life A has ever known for A has been changing bodies since birth. A has never really thought about how life could be different if you only stayed in one body, until A meets Rhiannon. Suddenly A wonders is finding ways to stay connected to her, and has even explained how much different life is when you are in different shoes daily. But there is a price to pay for making time for Rhiannon in each new body, and A will find out the hard way why love is such a fragile thing.

If you want a book that really makes you think about life and love, this is the most thought provoking book I have read in a long time. You will think about how others perceive you, how far would you go for love, how fragile trust can be and what you would have to give up to make someone trust you in return, as well as how does sexual orientation figure into relationships. I guarantee you will not walk away from this book without taking a good hard look at yourself, what you have to offer the world, and what you would change if you could be someone else every day.

The story is moving on many different levels. I became really wrapped up in the budding relationship between A and Rhiannon but I could also see all the ways that it could never work out. Not only is there the difficultly of moving around to different places, there is also someone else is involved every time A goes to see her; the person whose body A is occupying that day. As the story progresses you begin to worry about the people A is “hijacking” during his stay and how a missed opportunity could pass while the person is “away”. This is a fantastic book and I highly recommend this for high school readers and up. Everyone can take something away from this great read!


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