Another Day

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.