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Tok
Sep 20, 2017 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
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Anna
Feb 06, 2015 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition

The premise of this book is interesting. The protagonist who ages as the same rate as any human spends individual days in a different host body all within the same geographical area.

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Jocelyn
Sep 14, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
The consciousness that is A wakes up in a different body every morning and has done since birth, for 16 years. For simplicity's sake I will refer to A as a boy but A thinks of himself as neither a boy or a girl... only as a being. He has been in too many different bodies to have been conditioned by either biology or cultural expectations. Before he could articulate himself, before his mind could reason and understand there was only the pain of loss; being ripped away from people he needed to dep ...more
Laura (booksnob)
Aug 23, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2013, young-adult
Every day he inhabits or embodies a new person. Every day he knows that he is a separate being from the one whose body he uses for the day. Every day he is invisible to the world and visible only to himself. Every day A wakes up, he or she is 16 years old and beginning a new experience. Every day is different, unique and never ending. Will A ever stay in one place and have a normal life?

One day he falls in love with Rhiannon and he meets her when he is inside her boyfriend Justin's body. The nex
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Tanya
Aug 15, 2015 rated it liked it
Hated some parts, loved some parts. A strange but interesting book which was a good but frustrating read. That's about all the thoughts I can cobble together on this book. ...more
Agatha Donkar Lund
Jun 15, 2013 rated it did not like it
Shelves: fiction, young-adult, 2013
Ugh. Would not have read except for book club, and still: ugh. I gave David Levithan up for a reason, and that reason is I do not enjoy his books.
Jana
Aug 28, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: audiobooks
A nice, simple, but interesting book to listen to.
Kaley
Aug 06, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: ya, arc, 2012
Katy
Aug 31, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: tbr-ya
Tammy AZ
Sep 03, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: ala
Jayme Pendergraft
Sep 15, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2012, src-fall-2012
Lindsay
Oct 17, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: glbtq
Astrid Lim
Oct 21, 2012 marked it as wishlist
Jessica
Oct 28, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Soelo
Jul 04, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Claire Fun
Mar 11, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: wishlist
Lori
Jul 13, 2014 marked it as to-read
Pamela
Sep 10, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Lara
Dec 19, 2014 rated it really liked it
Becca
May 16, 2015 rated it liked it
Shelves: ya
Sarah
Sep 09, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ahsia
Dec 12, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Kat
Dec 25, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Barondestructo
Apr 15, 2018 rated it liked it
Colleen Chi-Girl
Aug 27, 2018 marked it as to-read
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