Another Day by David Levithan

I don't think I've been looking forward to a new release all year like I have been for Another Day, the long-awaited companion book to Levithan's Every Day from 2012.  I ADORED Every Day and I recommend it to students all the time.  Seriously, Levithan should send me flowers and gifts to thank me for all the kids out there that have gone out and purchased his book because I've talked about it so much.  Every Day is about 'A', a soul without a body.  A is genderless because every morning A wakes up and is in someone else's body.  It's a fabulous novel that asks us think about identity and how we define ourselves.  It also asks us to consider if we could ever learn to love someone whose face and gender changes every day.

Naturally, I was thrilled when I got the email from NetGalley: "Your request to view Another Day has been approved."  (*Insert Homer Simpson cheering noise here*)

Another Day is not a sequel, so fans wanting to know what happened to A at the end of Every Day will be disappointed.  Another Day retells the story, but this time from Rhiannon's point of view.  At first I wasn't sure if this was even necessary, and truthfully, I still have some doubts.  In Every Day, A falls in love with Rhiannon and manages to convince her that A's unique situation is true, and she in turn begins to fall in love with A.  I felt like a large chunk of Another Day offered little that was new, since we've read a lot of this before.  However, Rhiannon's point of view is unique because she has to struggle with her own ideas of love and relationships, even before she meets A.  Her doubts and insecurities are real and should ring true with teen readers. 

And yet, by the end of Another Day, we still don't know what's to come of A and Rhiannon, as the book ends pretty much exactly where Every Day does.  We'll have to keep waiting and wondering if they'll ever have a happy ending.