Another Day by David Levithan

The eagerly anticipated companion to David Levithan's "New York Times" bestseller "Every Day" In this enthralling companion to his "New York Times" bestseller "Every Day," David Levithan (co-author of "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" with John Green) tells Rhiannon's side of the story as she seeks to discover the truth about love and how it can change you. Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don't be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up. Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to "see" her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day--a perfect day Justin doesn't remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person . . . wasn't Justin at all.

2.5/5 ⭐
It's just the first book but from a worse more boring perspective. I see absolutely no point to this book existing.

never in my live have I read a sequel that is so completely unnecessary. why follow up a book with the same story from the other pov? surely if you were doing that it would be released after the sequel rather than after the first book in the series.

anyway, I don't know if how I read has changed since the first book or if I now enjoy different things but rhiannon was insufferable and should've dumped justin regardless of her feelings for a, justin was the absolute worst and a racist asshole, and it made zero sense why a fell for rhiannon, and I don't even believe that she's that into them.

just a complete waste of time.

This is not a sequel - this book takes the story from Every Day ... and retells it from the perspective of Rhiannon. I enjoyed it, it's well written, I liked the characters and the pace - but am not sure it adds much to the story.
I read Every Day 4 years ago... I wonder if it would have been better if I'd re-read it before reading this one - so it was fresher in my mind. However, since it was a retelling of Every Day, I might not have been quite as enchanted to read this companion book right on the heels of finishing the first book - I suspect it would have felt a bit cumulative. With the 4-year gap between books - what I enjoyed was revisiting this world for a bit.
This cannot be read as a standalone, btw... it's a companion to the first book and is told with the idea that the reader already knows all the quirks of the world that A lives in.

Disappointed does not even begin to describe how I feel right now.

Every Day was such a good book and this was... not.

Here's the thing- Another Day says it's the sequel. It is not. This is a companion novel and a sorry one at that. It's set in Rhiannon's perspective, which would have been fine if the story continued, but it didn't. Rather, it was literally Every Day but in Rhiannon's perspective.

While it's nice to get a glimpse of how another main character is feeling in a novel, making an entire book in another character's persepctive, alongside the other one, is just boring. You lose crucial plot situations because the reader already knows what happens. There is no foreshadowing. There is no climax- or at least there doesn't feel like one- because you go into this knowing exactly how the book ends. It's like when everyone spoiled the end of Mockingjay except, newsflash, it was the author who did it.

If Levithan wanted to give the reader a peek into Rhiannon's mind so badly, he should have just used two POVs in Every Day instead of writing another novel that mirrors Every Day.

I can't say the writing is bad. The style really isn't and it is a good story. A really good story in fact. The plotline is fantastic and that's what made Every Day so intriguing. It's just so lazy to write a book with the exact same plot as the first one. There were times when I felt that Levithan had literally copied and pasted text from Every Day into Another Day.

I'm probably most disappointed because I liked Every Day so much and there was so much he could have done with it. My favorite parts of this book were at the tail-end, where he included 3 short, 2-page chapters set a month after Another Day. That's what I wanted the entire book to be.

I just pray Someday doesn't disappoint like Another Day did.