Welcome back to Books With Cause. You might get a touch of deja vu with this one. Let’s dive into my latest review.
Back in November, I reviewed Every Day by David Levithan. The heartwarming YA book told the story of A, a supernatural being who woke up in a different body every day. The crux of this story was that A fell in love with a girl named Rhiannon. Each day, they would do whatever they could to meet Rhiannon again, but every time they had to start afresh because she wouldn’t recognise them or realise that this was the same person she had seen the previous day.
Another Day is the first of two other books by Levithan that take place in the same story world with the same characters. Except that this book isn’t a sequel as such. Rather, it is the same story as Every Day, but from Rhiannon’s perspective rather than A’s.
This book opens like any other day for Rhiannon. She goes to school and has a boyfriend called Justin. Except Justin seems different on this day. Out of nowhere, he suggests the pair of them bunk school, and they spend the day on the beach. To Rhiannon, it’s the most perfect day ever. So she’s surprised the next day when Justin is back to his regular moody self and barely wants to talk about their day at the beach.
Over the coming days, she meets numerous people who each seem to take an interest in her until finally one of the people claims they have been the same person, visiting her in different bodies. But the icing on the cake is when they claim to have been the Justin she went to the beach with that day. This person also tells Rhiannon that Justin doesn’t love her, not really, and not as much as A does. A wants them to be together. But how can that happen when A switches bodies every single day?
Even though I always knew how this book would end, it still brought me great joy throughout. It was still fascinating to experience all the scenes I was expecting from Rhiannon’s perspective. We get to find out how she felt throughout this story, along with what she got up to in the scenes where A wasn’t around.
Another Day really is a twin or companion novel to Every Day. While I read them in order of publication, you can read these two books in either order. You could even read them alongside each other, the way they occur in parallel timelines to each other.
Every Day seemed like it had quite a clear-cut ending. But upon reading Another Day, it seems that Rhiannon isn’t of the same opinion as A. She doesn’t think their story is over. Which makes it just as well that David Levithan penned a third book. Someday. Which is right around the time I’ll get to reading it, too. When I do, you know that you’ll be able to find the review right here at Books With Cause.
My Goodreads rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars)
