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I'm fairly certain that the cover has more spoilers than this review, but if you want to read the book and go in totally blind, don't continue on. Really, now's your chance...
Every Day took me less than a day to read. I hadn't actually planned on reading it as soon as I did. I have maybe two sizable stacks of books I want to read, but the cover kept drawing my attention. I have a bit of a thing for covers.
The book has an interesting premise. The narrator, A, wakes up every day in a new body. A is neither male or female and wakes up in the bodies of both. To respect A's genderless nature, I'll use the pronoun "ze" in place of "he or her". A navigates the life of the person ze's in the best ze can, then moves on by the next day. The body's owners don't usually notice. Some of the situations A woke up into were completely ordinary, others were sad, and still others were just bizarre. I loved seeing what sort of life ze would come across next. I also appreciate the amount of empathy and thinking it must have taken Levithan to come up with that many unique lives.
I also loved the honesty that seemed to emanate from the book. Levithan was able to relate to the struggles of the characters very well. I found myself stopping to reread lines like this one:
When I finished, one thought lingered. I suppose it's actually Walt Whitman's thought -"I am large, I contain multitudes". That's how Every Day made me feel. It made me feel more connected to everyone, and it made me even more curious about everyone's personal story. I'd definitely recommend this book and I think it's earned about 9.4/10 stars.
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