Another Day by David Levithan - OPTIONAL

Another Day (Every Day, #2) by David Levithan, 329 pages.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.  $18.  

Content: Language: R (73 swears; 24 “f”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG.  

BUYING ADVISORY: HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

Rhiannon is in a verbally and emotionally abusive relationship with her boyfriend Justin.  One day Justin is unusually nice, she feels a deep connection to him and loves the unique day.  Over the course of the next three days, she meets two new people and then receives an e-mail explaining that the day Justin was nice he was actually the host of a body-less person named “A”, and he was also the other two new people that Rhiannon met.  Rhiannon believes A’s story and starts to realize that her relationship with Justin is toxic, but is frustrated by A’s constantly changing appearance.  

This is the same story as Levithan’s book Every Day, but it is just from the perspective of Rhiannon.  I had a hard time liking Rhiannon because she spends the bulk of her day saying “sorry” and trying to make Justin happy, so it confuses me why she made such a big impact on A.  The content includes a lot of references to sex, an emotional/verbal abusive relationship, one character struggles with suicide and the topic of gender fluidity.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson