Catship reviewed Every Day by David Levithan
A mixed bag
2 stars
I love some things about this story. I would be willing to ignore my eeeeh feelings about how this ties into developmental psychology.
But I dislike the main character so much. The way they talk about the people they possess. It's the most obvious with the fat kid, but I was also deeply uncomfortable with the chapters about the trans kid and the suicidal kid. There's also that this whole "I'm the wisest 16 year old" thing never really gets challenged.
And while I love love the body hopping thing and all that, I'm so disappointed by the way the entanglement of body and mind is conceptualised. It's very mechanical and.... boring.
