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Title: Another Day
Author: David Levithan
Publication: August 25th 2015 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Genre: Young Adult ~ Contemporary
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Rating: 4/5
This review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my opinion or content of the review.
The eagerly anticipated companion to David Levithan’s New York Times bestseller Every Day
In this enthralling companion to his New York Times bestseller Every Day, David Levithan (co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green) tells Rhiannon’s side of the story as she seeks to discover the truth about love and how it can change you.
Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don’t be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up.
Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day—a perfect day Justin doesn’t remember the next morning. Confused, depressed, and desperate for another day as great as that one, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Then, one day, a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person . . . wasn’t Justin at all.
Reading a story that you've already read in a different character's point of view is always going to be an interesting perspective. In the case of Another Day it came very close to perfection.
Was it as good as Every Day? Not entirely, but I really enjoyed reading the story in Rhiannon's point of view. And the ending made me so very hopeful!
The story was pretty much the same of course, but this time we lived everything through Rhiannon's eyes. You'd think things would get repetitive but it really wasn't. It had a fresh and new feel to the story.
So, although Another Day wasn't as good as Every Day, David Levithan still surprised me with this book. It was better than I expected and once again the story really touched me. Especially the ending. I loved it!
About the Author:
David Levithan (born 1972) is an American children's book editor and award-winning author. He published his first YA book, Boy Meets Boy, in 2003. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a Young Adult imprint of Scholastic Press.
Title: Marly's Ghost
Author: David Levithan
Publication: January 8th 2015 by Electric Monkey
Genre: Young Adult ~ Contemporary
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Rating: 4/5
Review copy provided in exchange for an honest review.
A remix of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with a Valentine’s twist
When Ben’s girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over and the prospect of Valentine’s day without her fills him with bitterness. But then Marly arrives – or at least, her ghost does – along with three other spirits. Now Ben must take a journey through Valentines past, present and future – and what he learns will change him forever.
Marly's Ghost is a modern day retelling of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens with a Valentine's twist to it. I haven't read the original Dickens story but I am familiar with the story so I'm glad it ended up being a pretty great book.
The story revolves around Ben (Ebenezer) who lost his girlfriend Marly due to illness. Her death made Ben bitter and uncaring about love and even his friends, until Marly's ghost send three spirits to Ben. That's where the remix of A Christmas Carol really starts.
Ben's character was a bit of a jerk to some people but I couldn't help but liking him. Though the way he sometimes spoke, and some of the other characters too, didn't seem at all like how a teenager would speak, it seemed to me. But that's also my only negative point. Other than that I loved reading it. And I also loved how Levithan took the original character of Tiny Tim and made him into two people, a gay couple: Tiny and Tim. I really liked them, actually. They were pretty adorable.
Overall, Marly's Ghost was sometimes a quite emotional but beautiful story. It, just like A Christmas Carol, has a powerful message and I was really captured by the gorgeous prose in which David Levithan wrote it. Highly recommended!
About the Author:
David Levithan (born 1972) is an American children's book editor and award-winning author. He published his first YA book, Boy Meets Boy, in 2003. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a Young Adult imprint of Scholastic Press.
