Member Reviews
Another Day by David Levithan offers a fresh perspective on the unique love story from Every Day. This time, we see everything through Rhiannon’s eyes as she navigates her feelings for A, a soul who changes bodies daily. Thought-provoking and poignant, it explores identity, love, and what truly defines us.
I want to thank NetGalley and Alfred A Knopf Books for Young Readers for providing me with an egalley of this book to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I truly enjoyed the first installment in this series, Every Day. It was unique in not only who the characters were but also in how we experienced what those characters were going through. I love that this particular story shows us another side to the one we already know.
Because describing the plot and what happens would ruin the story for the first book, I will stick talking about the writing, the characters, and the pacing.
As with the first part of this series, Levithan's writing and story is very unique. I'm not usually a lover of reading the same story twice, but it was interesting to get this story from Rhiannon's POV. I thought I might be bored hearing the same thing again but surprisingly I was not.
Levithan's pacing is spot on. The story flowed just as well as the first. But the ending, it was very abrupt. I was expecting more. I perhaps thought I was missing something. Was it a set up for another story? Had I read this earlier, I would have not know but now I do see the third installment does, indeed, exist, and perhaps I will get my answer by reading that.
If you enjoy magical realism, then you should take a dive into this series. If only for the writing alone, which is phenomenal.
The story was pretty much the same of course, but this time we lived everything through Rhiannon's eyes. You'd think things would get repetitive but it really wasn't. It had a fresh and new feel to the story.
So, although Another Day wasn't as good as Every Day, David Levithan still surprised me with this book. It was better than I expected and once again the story really touched me. Especially the ending. I loved it!
Thank you Knopf books and NetGalley for an advanced copy for an honest review.
Rhiannon is in a rut with her temperamental boyfriend Justin. She feels everyday is the same until one day that was perfect. She heard that Justin was not her Justin. This is a sequel to every day which told the story from the other point of view. In every day a transports himself into other bodies each day until he meets Rhiannon and doesn’t want to continue that process.
A story in every day was do great that this was facing an uphill battle. It’s hard to understand why she stayed so long with him. I’m glad she got her experience.
This book was well written and a quick read.
i love, love, loved this book. enough so that i went out and bought it after reading it on here. of course, i don't know how that review holds up now. but, 15 year old me loved it
I really wanted to like this book, but something about it just wasn't the same. Honestly should have just left it with the first book and left it at that.
I am late to the game providing feedback for this one but always a fan of David Levithan. The storyline is intriguing and moves the reader forward at just the right pace. Character development is solid and believable (even in elements where the reader has to suspend disbelief). All together an enjoyable story that hits you in the feels at just the right intensity.
I booktalk David's Levithan's book Every Day all the time, so I love that we now have a companion to A's story. I think this sort of speculative fiction/magical realism reaches a broad audience, which is great! I have plans to feature this on monthly displays for romance, speculative fiction, and diverse books.
My favorite thing about this book is that it tells the other perspective. We have enjoyed Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints pairing for discussing point of view and perception of events, and this pairing will give us another option for doing that with our students. This is useful to us for critical literacy and teaching the students in our YA lit class about how lived experiences affect perceptions of events -- which is PERFECT for introducing the diverse perspectives in our course. This is a definite buy for us!
I like this series, but I'm not really a fan of Rhiannon. Even she herself doesn't understand why A considers her to be so special. =|
After years of trying to get into this book sadly I just can't. I think I am better off just leaving this series as a one book read. For some reason this one is just not for me. I really enjoyed Every Day being told from A's perspective. It was different and something new. But I just couldn't connect when ever I tried to read Another Day. I strongly believe it was a case of 'It's not you, it's me' and this one was just not right for me.
I can definitely see why David Levithan felt he needed to share the other point of view of A's story, and it gives such interesting insight into the effects of A's relationship.
I don't think I would have enjoyed this as much if I'd read it straight after Every Day as it's the same story but from Rhiannon's point of view. But it's a nice, light read.
Good follow up title, though nothing I fell in love with. I feel like the original stood on it’s own very well and didn’t really need this.
I really enjoyed the first book in this duology, but I was disappointed that this was the same book from a different POV. I didn't feel like we learned enough new information to make it interesting.
Nooo!! I don't want to say it was awful but it was pretty much like rereading a book that you loved and just adding a couple of useless plots into it.
Another Day is a companion book to the wonderful young adult novel Every Day by David Levithan.
In Every Day, we read the story from the perspective of A, a person who inhabits a different person's life each and every day. Another Day is told from the perspective of Rhiannon, the young woman that A finds him/herself attracted to. A is a teenager, and always winds up in another teen's body of about the same age and in the same geographic region. In the first novel, A first meets Rhiannon when s/he inhabits the body of Rhiannon's abusive boyfriend. Because A takes over each person's functions for the course of one day, A is able to access that person's memories, core values, and get a sense of who that person is. Knowing that Rhiannon's boyfriend is awful, A takes Rhiannon on a date to the beach -- in what turns out to be one of the best days of Rhiannon's mediocre life.
In Another Day we get inside Rhiannon's head, and we can see her confusion when her boyfriend suddenly starts treating her well, if just for a day. We see her disbelief, her fears, her insecurities. And eventually, we see her hope that A might be exactly who and what A claims to be.
I absolutely adored the first book, and handed out to as many teen readers as I could after its publication. I bought ten copies for my libraries. I was very much looking forward to Another Day's publication, hoping it would be a sequel that continued A's story. That disappointment aside, this is another well-crafted David Levithan story that puts us in another person's shoes.
Readers who've experienced the first story (and hopefully everyone has) will know what is coming, since they've seen most of the story from a different perspective. As with all other Levithan books I've read, Another Day handles a sensitive topic with compassion and sincerity. The essential question of the first book continues in the second: does gender matter when it comes to love? Fans of LGBTQ fiction absolutely loved the first book and have been excited to hear about the sequel. More importantly, this is a work that will hopefully find an audience beyond the kids who normally pick up LGBTQ fiction. These two books are ultimately not stories about gender or queer issues, but about finding yourself and being who you are, even if you are someone else every day -- or another day.
I enjoyed this book, it was a very interesting idea and I liked that it kept me guessing, I thought I had it all figured out.
I didn't enjoy this book. I don't know what it was but I just couldn't connect with the main character. (Probably because he? she? it??? kept becoming a new person). In theory I like the idea in this book, but it just felt very unfinished. I understand there are more books in the series but I'm just not a fan.
Review not published because it's under three stars
David Levithan is a fantastic author and the high standard of storytelling found in all previous novels continues in this one. The book was fast paced and easy to read. I would recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys Levithans other novels, as well as those looking for a gripping storyline and intriguing characters.