Review: Another Day, by David Levithan

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Another Day by David Levithan
Series: Every Day #2
Published by Egmont UK Limited ISBN: 9781405273435
on 2015-07
Pages: 400
My rating:
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Synopsis

Companion novel to the internationally acclaimed bestselling title Every Day.
Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has convinced herself that she deserves her distant, moody boyfriend, Justin. She knows the rules: Don’t be needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up.
Then, out of the blue, they share a perfect day together – perfect, that is, until Justin doesn’t remember anything about it. Confused, and yearning for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts to question everything. And that’s when a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that time with … wasn’t Justin at all.

It was funny, reading this book. Because, while Every Day was eye-opening and something I learned from, this book, since it’s told from Rhiannon’s POV, told me the same story, but in a way I could relate to it better. Because, you see I’m Rhiannon.

And with this, I mean, I’m the girl who, like Rhiannon, is okay with homosexuality and hangs around all sort of people and it doesn’t bother her in the sligthest. She’s okay. Until, A comes along and she’s confronted with this impossibility, of loving someone who changes bodies every day. Can you really keep telling yourself all that matters is the inside?

With Another Day, I feel it became less about whether it’s a boy, or a girl, and also about if he(she)’s Asian, hairy, has brown eyes or blue, is tall, or short, fat or really thin. Gender is just one more factor in the game.

Rhiannon has this mental image of A, and I actually laughed at this, because I too, had a mental image of him. And let’s begin with that, A is automatically male in my mind. Let’s start there. It was that way for Rhiannon too.  She recognizes it makes her feel bad, to have these assumptions, but she can’t help it. She even talks to her friend Preston about it, about types and why does the outside have to matter if you’re supposed to fall in love with who’s inside.

I liked this book because it’s not judgmental. It doesn’t condemn Rhiannon for thinking this way. For feeling the need to kiss A when he’s in a cute boy’s body, for keeping her distance when he’s huge or bulky, for being a little lost when A’s in a girl’s body… and so on.

The book dragged at times, and I skipped some things, but overall, I enjoyed this read a lot and highly recommend it if you’ve already read Every Day.

AND THE ENDING. SHIT. THAT ENDING. There’s going to be a 3rd book, I tell you. Because it can’t end like that. It’s too open, and just NO. Every Day was autoconclusive, but left you mildly pleased by yearning. This one. This one is slightly tortorous.

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