Review: Someday

Someday by David Levithan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As the official follow-up to Every Day - notwithstanding the semi-concurrent companion piece Another Day - Someday continues the story of A and Rhiannon and especially of Nathan, with a few new additions - namely, some random POVs of a very diverse group of people scattered here and there throughout the narrative. And also, X. Dear God, X. This guy was such a piece of work, taking A's unique body-surfing abilities and gaining a certain measure of control over them - and also being pretty callous and cruel in his treatment of the bodies he gets ahold of, and those he meets as well. And then he also talks up a good game about needing to maintain one's own humanity in a world where, by his very existence being so transient, he doesn't really get the chance to have any. He almost makes me want to come to his side just because of how much I relate to his feelings of disconnection from any kind of sense of soul.

And then there's A, who may not live in any body for more than 24 hours, but still has the most soul of all. I'd rather grow up to be A for sure.


In addition to the core characters, we get glimpses into the lives of even more teenagers all across the spectra of American society. More than ever, Levithan highlights our country's diversity to great degrees, showing A go around in the bodies of teens of many races, genders, sexualities, and classes. (Whereas X likes to stick to the same handsome cis white boy's meat suit for as long as he can - the symbolism's pretty evident, no?) I remember there's been a few people bringing up complaints over the years about some of the representation in the first book - especially fat rep - but I think Levithan took a lot of said criticism to heart in creating this even more inclusive world in the sequel. Heck, the climax of this book has all our leads coming together during a big Equality March in DC.

I'm pretty sure this will be the end of the road for this series, and though I do feel like there's still a few loose ends left unwrapped in the end, it's certainly better than the first book - which I still feel to this day had no ending at all.

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