Every Day by David Levithan


This is a fantasy with a new twist. The main character is a genderless 16 year old with no body, just a soul, and this character wakes up every day as a different person, not knowing who that person is. It is a different body type everyday, male, female, skinny, fat, diabetic, suicidal, healthy, criminal, saint, poverty stricken or wealthy, home-schooled, mainlined or private academy, gay, lesbian, school jock or geek, normal, or any of a variety of 16 year old real persons, a complete pectrum of types, but just for one day. And the next day and every day thereafter our main character is a new person who is not supposed to change anything, but just live that person's life the way they do.. It's an interesting story concept but I felt conflicted by it. The story rambles on, and except for the main character's thoughts and frustrations, all the other characters are flat since they only get one day to introduce themselves. The author is preachy about gender issues and treats sex casually and religion as something only for nutters. It dragged in the middle, is more a romance novel than a philosophical treatise (which it could have been) and is an interesting premise for a story but poorly executed.


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