I am now on summer vacation, yes! I guess I’ll have more time to read, but then again, I do have other things to do. I just finished reading Every Day by David Levithan and was it a good book? Yes! It was a very good book! Although at first I thought it was going to be cheesy since it’s not really possible in real life, but I stand corrected. It was nowhere near cheesy.
Just like before, I’ll be starting with the good things before the bad things and yes, even if I started with a very very happy introduction to this post, I still had a few negative observations about it (but don’t worry! It’s just a few!) The plot was very unique. It was very smart of David to connect the things of the book despite the difficult situation of the character. The part that struck me the most was the ending. Holy cow, the ending! The ending was totally unexpected! I thought they were going to find a way for A to stay in that body or something which was wrong, but what would you expect from books, right? But no, wow. He gave up Rhiannon to the boy. Wow, that was super shocking. I was also touched when A was in this guy named Hugo’s life. Specifically the part where he fished from his memory the day when Hugo and his boyfriend got together. That was special and creative.
Part of why I liked this book is because I was kind of expecting a John Green type of book since they are both popular and they have written a novel together, but I do commend the way of writing in this novel because it isn’t some very simple and practical book. The conversations between people were realistic and the way they act was true to life except for the fact that A changed bodies every day.
I was expecting for a little bit more excitement and thrill in Nathan’s side of the story. I wished there was more action in that part. In my opinion, I think it would be better if he tried to really prove himself to Nathan that he wasn’t the devil or maybe did something to Reverend Poole, but I’m not the author of the book so I can’t do anything about that. I think it wasn’t a good idea to put the part where he met Rhiannon in the first parts of the book. I would’ve liked it better if he had tried to keep his mind off her and concentrated on the body that he was taking over. (Yes, I refer to A as a he just cause).
Because the author put their ocean adventure in the first part of the book, it seemed pretty normal to me. I didn’t feel the attraction between the two of them. And I have said this many times about many other books, which is very sad, I didn’t feel the emotion in the book. All the feelings that the reader should have felt probably hit me at the end when he was starting to say goodbye to Rhiannon. But their “love”? I didn’t feel any of that so it wasn’t actually a big of a deal for me if they didn’t see each other. Honestly, I was even more thrilled when Nathan found out about A and his body changing.
It was a fun experience for me to have read a book like that and I am willing to read more David Levithan books because they seem pretty interesting. Yup, there you go.
Margaret Madrigal 