🟪Here are some excerpts from the book 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 I’ve found for you. The reference is more to the writing than to the events of the story, or the point of view.' But in the book itself, it never says that the character listens to Placebo. 📢As for the title, 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 said that 'when I started writing the book, I wanted the novel to be my equivalent of a Sleeping with Ghosts era Placebo song. This guilt is made worse by mysterious photographs that are being strategically left for him.

The narration is addressing Ariel and tells how Evan is dealing with much guilt surrounding this experience. Still, the pictures were fun to look at.The book tells the story of Evan, a young boy whose best friend, Ariel, has recently suffered a psychotic break. I think some people are going to like it, and some will make kindling out of it. And thinking about the big picture instead of just the story in the book. This book definitely requires reading between the lines. Maybe it's all too much transcendentalism for me. And how we perceive these interactions will determine how we interact with others: who we'll love, who we'll hate. We see various people in our day-to-day activities, and they will always see a different me than the me someone else will see. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was sweet. And on the surface? I didn't care about this book.

But we also see Evan trying to rekindle friendships as he tries to figure out what his role is with all of this. And once these random pictures start showing up, we see the guilt push forward. And yet, he somehow feels like it's his fault for Ariel's disappearance. Period.Įver since Evan's friend, Ariel, disappeared, he's been trying to move on with life. Creatively told with black-and-white photos interspersed between the text so the reader can see the photos that are so unnerving to Evan, Every You, Every Me is a one-of-a-kind departure from a one-of-a-kind author.Ĭan we just admit that being a teenager is one of the hardest things we'll ever do in our lives? So much emotion.

But the more Evan starts to unravel the mystery, the more his paranoia and insomnia amplify, and the more he starts to unravel himself. And as crazy as it sounds, Evan’s starting to believe it’s Ariel that’s behind all of this, punishing him. Worse, ever since his best friend Ariel has been gone, he’s been unable to sleep, spending night after night torturing himself for his role in her absence. In this high school-set psychological tale, a tormented teen named Evan starts to discover a series of unnerving photographs-some of which feature him.

Every You, Every Me by David Levithan