Review- Someday by David Levithan

  BOOK SUMMARY:

Every day a new body. Every day a new life. Every day a new choice.

For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person's body every day, forced to live as that person until the day ended. A always thought there wasn't anyone else who had a life like this.

But A was wrong. There are others.

A has already been wrestling with powerful feelings of love and loneliness. Now comes an understanding of the extremes that love and loneliness can lead to -- and what it's like to discover that you are not alone in the world.

In Someday, David Levithan takes readers further into the lives of A, Rhiannon, Nathan, and the person they may think they know as Reverend Poole, exploring more deeply the questions at the core of Every Day and Another Day: What is a soul? And what makes us human?

Release date: October 2nd 2018

Published by: Electric Monkey

Page numbers: 400

REVIEW: 

When I bought Someday, I had no plans of reviewing it because the marvellous gem that is David Levithan is someone whose words I read for pleasure. When I read the book though, and I confirmed that I have, in fact, reviewed the previous books in the series, Six Days Earlier, Everyday and Another Day, something made me want to sit down and pen my thoughts about Someday as well. If you aren’t aware of these books at all, it’s a shame (no, I’m just kidding), but to summarise: the story takes us into the mind of A who takes a different body everyday, and whose life the reader doesn’t just follow, but becomes a part of.

Someday was just as unique and magical as Everyday, which didn’t come as a surprise to me. I did realise how much I missed reading about the unique character that is A and finding out more about how life works for someone who has no body. This book was an eye-opener in the sense that it portrayed the balance between right and wrong in a manner that was so meticulous and simple. With a ton of contemporary references, this book ends up telling the reader more than just that though. While the first book, Everyday, made me admire, appreciate and love A, Someday just proved how all of that still stands true.

Another book. Another masterpiece. David Levithan never ceases to astound me with his impressive writing and breathtaking storytelling. Reading Someday was like going to a place I didn’t even know I could call home. It was like drinking a hot cup of coffee on a cold winter evening or a tall glass of perfect temperature water on a hot summer day... stuff you don’t even know you need, but when you do consume it, it ends up consuming you and that I feel is incredible.