Author: David Levithan
Pages: 322
Version: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
This book is about a person called A that wakes up in a new body every day. Essentially, he falls in love with the girlfriend of one of the bodies he inhabits. He ends up not being able to let her go and so decides to try and convince her to work out a relationship with him. The whole book is really about them seeing how this relationship can possibly work. I ended up reading this book in about three days I think. I finished it pretty quickly. At first, it took me a little while to actually get into it because I felt like I had to get used to the author's writing. For some reason it just seemed a lot different stylistically compared to books that I normally read. I decided to read this book because I thought the plot was a really cool and interesting idea which it definitely was. However, in the beginning of the book it starts out with sort of introducing A (the main character) and shows him in a guy named Justin's body. After A meets Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon, he realizes that Justin doesn't really treat her right and so tries to make his day with her really special, hoping to change Justin. Over the course of this time, A somehow completely falls in love with Rhiannon. I personally had a problem with this. I simply do not understand how he fell in love with her so deeply in a day. It seemed really unrealistic and strange to me. After this, he tries to go and see her whenever the body he is in is convenient to get to her. This seemed a bit... creepy to me. He knew her for one day, she has a boyfriend (whose body he was in), and yet he wants to see her and almost stalk her in a weird way. Soon problems start to arise and A ends up telling Rhiannon about his situation and confesses his love for her. Her character seemed to take it somewhat like a normal person would so that was good. Later on in the story, there is sort of another subplot happening while this romance plot is going on. I honestly don't really know why they put this other subplot in, it ended up not really going anywhere at all and didn't actually add much to the story. It would have been a really interesting addition if it had actually had some sort of role in A's life, but it didn't. This brings me to my biggest problem with the story. The ending. It did not satisfy me at all. It left so many things up in the air and yet it doesn't really seem like it can be continued. Basically, I didn't like the ending at all. In addition, the book was slightly inappropriate at some parts which I was not a fan of, but it wasn't terrible. Also, the cover is pretty nice, but I personally am not a big fan of the yellow that they tinted everything. Anyway, this actually is a pretty good book. If you like semi-unrealistic romance with a cool sort of underlying issue then I would read this for sure. However, if you want a really fantastic ending, I'm not sure this would be the best book to read. The ending makes sense, but.... just see for yourself.
I've been wanting to read this book because it sounds like a really cool concept. However, that's unfortunate that the ending isn't so great; It seems like I've read far too many disappointing story endings lately. I'll probably still give it a chance though!
ReplyDeleteI've been considering reading this because I think it sounds really cute. I'm definitely a lover of good book endings, and believe that a bad one can ruin the whole thing, but maybe if the rest of it's good enough I can just pretend it doesn't exist? ><
ReplyDeleteI really wanted to read this,and it could definitely be a fascinating book. I'm disappointed that you didn't think the ending is very good, but i think its is still worth a try!
ReplyDeleteOh I want to read this. It sounds like something I would like to read. Too bad the ending wasn't great, but I'm still going to read it anyway, the rest of the book sounds good.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds fairly interesting, though the complaints you mentioned sound really valid, lol to the stalking bit that does sound creepy. Maybe this isn't a wise recommendation if the inappropriate parts of the book bothered you, but another book by David Levithan is called Will Grayson will Grayson. He wrote it with John Green and it's a really amazing book. It does have some fairly inappropriate parts, I found them funny, but in general it's to be a fantastic book. :)
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