Every Day #1.

Every Day
von David Levithan

Bewertet mit 3 Sternen

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”

Every Day by David Levithan is a unique, emotional, and thought-provoking book. It explores what it means to be genderless, without a body, and without a family, and that it is an evocative love story.

The story is about "A" - someone who wakes up in a different person's body and life every single morning. They have always been this way and have come to accept it. Until, that is, they end up inside the body of a boy called Justin and fall for Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. Suddenly, A's many lives revolve around locating Rhiannon and spending time with her. Hoping they can be together, and knowing that they can't.

Our main character in this book is never described as male or female. "A" is a being who wakes up every day in a different body. This person is the very definition of "walking a mile in someone else's shoes." Mainly it's because A has never had shoes of his/her own.

The first thing you should know before deciding whether to read this book is that it is wangsty contemporary romance masquerading as paranormal and/or science fiction. You cannot go into the book expecting an explanation of any of the paranormal elements in the book because you won't find any.

When it comes down to it, this book just didn't work for me. I love the idea of it, and Levithan's writing style wasn't the problem. My issues were with the plot and the characters. But I loved how it explored so many aspects of humanity, how we look at others and what makes us who we are.