Name: Someday
ISBN: 9780399553059

David Levithan

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.

Someday

When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.

** spoiler alert **
           To be honest i was really hoping for more X and A interactions because wow finally A found someone who is the same as him. I mean X's murder and stealing is really and should be a big deal but i just want to read more of them interacting, talking about some things that they are the only one who can understand, sharing theories and answering each others questions, that's why X's disapperance really shocked and it felt like it's too fast but i also understand that he deserved it because of what he did. It just felt like A is alone again.

And then there's Rhiannon, as much as i liked her in the first book, she's the character i really disliked in this book. Alexander is too precious and i was really disappointed on how she treated him. And i just can't understand her behaviour in the first part of the book. 

And please Liam and Aemon deserves the world.. I would love to read how their story goes.

I really love how Levithan revealed that there are other people who's experiencing this kind of thing and a brief of their stories.

It was quite a journey but over all i loved the story, the plot is unique, it's a good book.

Maui S.

I liked this better than Another Day for sure. It gave some context on what A is and there are some people who are like him as well.

Kristy Donasco

Heavy spoilers ahead.

The story flowed like a straight line to me up until the very end. It was too slow for me and the characters weren't even that interesting. The 1st pov takes of ALL characters make them less appealing, and the emotions are spelled out literally for the readers that there was no space for the reader's imagery/interpretation to blend in the whole reading process. It gets tiring when A keeps mentioning Rhiannon on every page, Rhiannon isn't loveable at all, and Xenon's exposition of he-can-do-whatever-he-wants only makes him look very petty.

Taking down X was very anticlimactic too. For a book that showed his pov quite a few times, in the end, the conclusion to his thoughts and needs weren't fully addressed. He still wasn't fully heard. When he was having this pain in the later chapters, what was even happening there? So many questions left. Again, so damn anticlimactic.

I'm more interested in the lives that A jumps into, which, to me, was the appeal of the first book Everyday (which I actually liked.) I almost wished the story was about Liam and that other soul jumper instead because at least it stirred my emotions even when they were just 2 chapters for them.

Sometimes the style of writing also takes me out because the author tends to play with his words which were so unnecessary. Examples:

1.) "I know it's Valentine's day because yesterday was the day before Valentine's day." - just.. why??
2.) "Like what? Is there a support group for people like you who want to disappear? Is it called Anonymous Anonymous?" when the punchline isn't punching...
3.) "Cara knew they were bad for each other as boyfriend-girlfriend but okay for each once they took the boy- and girl off and just made it friend-friend." JUST SHOOT ME INSTEAD, FRIEND-FRIEND.

these were just some of the many examples where I was pulled out of the story because these sentences felt like some attempt at artistic writing that really did not work for me. "the crowd... was crowding." things like that made me sigh out loud.

I really enjoyed the first book (though I have read it more than 6 years ago) and it was because of the stories of the bodies A use once a day, and it was interesting how A maneuvers around and pursues his intentions (which is honestly just Rhiannon, Rhiannon, Rhiannon) while respecting the bodies that he is in. The glimpses of the story of those lives were enjoyable. But Someday doesn't really work for me. I find it quite.. messy.