"Every Day", The Fantasy Romance Novel That Defies The Conventional Love Story

From vampires falling in love with humans or angels choosing to betray their nature to follow their hearts, young adult novels nowadays have pushed their limits to present a new breed of romance stories. But just when we thought that these "forbidden love" and "supernatural-theme" romances are the bizarre genres we could meet, another writer had proved that imagination has no limits in creating possibilities.

David Levithan, American young-adult novel editor and award-winning author known for writing the controversial YA novel Boy Meets Boy, has again surprised YA fans with a one-of-a-kind love story that seemingly defied the conventional love story we usually know. And that's what he introduced in his 2012 New York Times bestselling novel, "Every Day". Described by Entertainment Weekly as a "wise, wildly unique" love story, Every Day talks about a teenager called A who "wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life."

According to an article from New York Times written  by Frank Buni, Op-Ed columnist for The Times and author of Born Around, the novel showed "Levithan’s talent for empathy, which is paired in the best parts of the book with a persuasive optimism about the odds for happiness and for true love."

In this novel, Levithan has indeed "pushed himself to new creative heights" as he tells the story about an unknown entity called A "who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life" and the complexities he must face for loving a normal girl named Rhiannon. Will it be possible, can he truly be love by someone when he is destined to change every day?

Well, one can find out when you read the book. Meanwhile, here's a short video of David Levithan introducing "Every Day" and reading excerpts from it.

"Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl."
Sypnosis: There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.
Sources: Goodreads | Wikipedia | David Levithan Official Website