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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
I. loved. this. book.
I picked this up with some trepidation since I wasn't a big fan of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, but I fell head over heels after Lily's first POV section.
First of all, the premise is designed to entrap book lovers everywhere. A journal of scavenger hunt clues hidden in your favorite bookstore? Bestill my heart. I would have been happy with the book with just this idea to start with, but Dash and Lily also got me by the feels. Dash's POV, admittedly, does not sound anything like a teenage boys' voice (except the teenage boys in my dreams when I was of that age ANYway...), and some of the dialogue throughout the book came off as unrealistic (John Green esque you could say) but I honestly DO NOT CARE. There, I said it. Half the time, realistically written teens are hella annoying anyway.
The stories' themes on Christmas and family weren't super in your face, but just enough there to mark this clearly as a Christmas novel in my mind. I also really enjoyed the ideas explored concerning building up people inside your head, your "dream other half", and how expectation never quite adds up to reality, and that's okay!!
I'd highly recommend this book, especially for the Christmas/New Years time! I read it mostly lining up to the corresponding days in the header of each chapter, and it was truly delightful.
I picked this up with some trepidation since I wasn't a big fan of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, but I fell head over heels after Lily's first POV section.
First of all, the premise is designed to entrap book lovers everywhere. A journal of scavenger hunt clues hidden in your favorite bookstore? Bestill my heart. I would have been happy with the book with just this idea to start with, but Dash and Lily also got me by the feels. Dash's POV, admittedly, does not sound anything like a teenage boys' voice (except the teenage boys in my dreams when I was of that age ANYway...), and some of the dialogue throughout the book came off as unrealistic (John Green esque you could say) but I honestly DO NOT CARE. There, I said it. Half the time, realistically written teens are hella annoying anyway.
The stories' themes on Christmas and family weren't super in your face, but just enough there to mark this clearly as a Christmas novel in my mind. I also really enjoyed the ideas explored concerning building up people inside your head, your "dream other half", and how expectation never quite adds up to reality, and that's okay!!
I'd highly recommend this book, especially for the Christmas/New Years time! I read it mostly lining up to the corresponding days in the header of each chapter, and it was truly delightful.