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 "If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough." 
 I liked the concept behind Every Day - it was something original that I haven't seen before and it intrigued me. The narrator - known as A - wakes up in a new body each day and has done all his life. He doesn't understand how or why, it's just how it's always been for him and that's how it is for the reader - every chapter is a new day, where A inhabits a new body and we learn a little about another character. 
 Throughout the book - though we witness lots of small stories in the form of the characters A inhabits each day - the overall plot is less new to us - good old-fashioned boy meets girl. In the first chapter, A wakes up in the body of a boy named Justin and promptly falls deeply and absorbedly in love with her. He then spends most of the rest of the book trying to be with her. The basic idea of the plot is nothing new and could maybe be thought of as a little disappointing in its lack of originality but I did think it was interesting to see how it worked within the context of the world Levithan has created. I liked the plot in the end - it kept me engaged and interesting and I definitely very much liked learning the stories of the new characters we meet each chapter and then leave behind to meet new ones - though I will admit it frustrated me to leave them behind at times, I would have liked a little longer with some of the characters - to find out what happened to them - but of course that wouldn't have worked in the context of the book. 
 The main character - A - is largely not what I expected and I felt he was something new and fresh - mainly because I didn't route for him (although I get the feeling I was supposed to). I felt he was kind of creepy and over-the-top in his pursuit of his love interest - Rhiannon - and he remains determined to have her even when she's reluctant and suggests that he leave her alone. I do feel like we can't blame his for this, though - in a way, he's been alone his whole life, and he just wants to be normal, he wants a constant in his life - and he wants Rhiannon for that. He's also never had a constant, guiding role model throughout his childhood so we can't blame him for being a little messed up. I also was frequently annoyed with how judgemental he could be - this made less sense to me as you'd think, with the amount of lives he's lead, he'd be accepting of everyone regardless of their lifestyles - he may try to help them if they're causing harm but would never judge them. We see this in his acceptance and encouragement of diversity of gender and sexual orientation and yet it doesn't extend to other lifestyle choices - he expresses disgust when inhabiting the body of a severely overweight boy and, on the converse, seems annoying and petty in his criticism of a girl for her attempts to perfect her appearance - even taking joy in disrupting her work-out routine. I found this quite upsetting, especially as there was never really an opportunity for another character to call him out on these remarks and so there is a real risk of the reader just agreeing with A - especially in the case of the girl. 
 The other main recurring character is Rhiannon. I did feel that, despite A being besotted with her and us seeing their entire relationship, that I never got to know her. I suppose perhaps this has a lot to do with the way A speaks about her - he thinks she's perfect so he describes her as perfect and we never see her faults and, as such, we never see her. I found she was generally likeable but lacked depth. 
 I really liked most of the rest of the characters - the ones A inhabited - I feel sees them as they are - the good and bad in them - and so we really see the complexity of a lot of them impressively well considering they only get one chapter each. 
 I don't feel that I was overly emotionally attached to the characters - in fact, I was more attached to the minor characters than the major ones. I did become rather emotionally involved in one chapter where A discovers his host has a plan to commit suicide but that minor story arc moved me more than the overriding plot and I did find it rather anticlimactic to leave each character behind at the end of their chapter - like the book is full of little stories without endings. I don't mean at all that I didn't love the little stories - I really did - but I did find it a little frustrating sometimes. 
 The book itself, I think, is pretty well written. I've read a few of David Levithan's books and I do always find they flow nicely and aren't difficult to keep reading - regardless of the depth of the subject matter. The writing itself isn't anything spectacular but I think it's pretty good and easy to follow - I never have to stop and think about what the author's trying to convey and that makes for a quick read - I read it in a day despite it being rather chunkier than some of his other books. 
 The book, in the end, has some meaning to it. We learn from A's actions - from his eventually decision to set Rhiannon free. Even though A's situation isn't fair on him - he doesn't have a body, a family, a life, like the people whose bodies he inhabits, he still accepts that it isn't right to take that away from someone else. He sacrifices everything he wants so that other people can be happy. I think that his actions are admirable, in the end, and that's what makes this book meaningful. 
 In the end, I found Every Day a very enjoyable read. It was not at all a chore to read it - I wanted to spend all day cooped up in my room with it, not seeing daylight or speaking to another human being. It's nice to read a book that I don't feel like I've read before - that keeps me engaged. No, it wasn't groundbreaking, it didn't change my life but I think it was well done and I enjoyed reading it.