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Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
Christmas-loathing Dash is bored and alone for the holidays. And he’s okay with it. He doesn’t have many plans except to avoid the Christmas spirit while he stays home by himself. When he comes across a Moleskine notebook amongst the shelves of his favorite bookstore, he finds a list of “dares” and suddenly, he is embarking upon a journey of wits and emotions.
Lily not only loves Christmas but practically lives and breathes it as well. Dejected during the holidays as her parents take off for a tropical vacation and her brother holes up with his boyfriend, Lily is left on her own with only a book of dares to entertain her, and keep her out of her brother’s hair. Sheltered her entire life with a reluctant alter-ego known as Shrilly, childishly naïve Lily expects to find a best friend out of the notebook. She hardly expected logophile, holiday-cynic Dash to pick up her journal, but a friendship strikes without even knowing his name, and emotions transfer to paper in a way no speech can convey.
Like all of Cohn and Levithan’s collaborations, the setting is New York City, in the bustling this time of Christmas. Passing the notebook back and forth between each other upon the completion of dares (such as rubbing pedophile Santa’s belly, a scene filled with laughter; and sitting through Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, a movie positively atrocious to the Christmas-spirited Lily), the two come to know each other intimately. Before they even meet each other, they know each other’s secrets and dreams. The developing relationship is fluid, but not without its share of drama and complications. Tender and witty, readers will find themselves rooting for the blooming romance.
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan make a brilliant team, with their unique voices. They harmonize in the manner of whimsy evident in all their writing. As different as their voices are their characters, but it all works together so well. While the teenagers are hardly realistic, especially in the case of Dash, they remain believable, existing through their fantastic portrayal. Told in alternating chapters from Dash and Lily’s views, readers are taken on a trip through New York City, in to each others’ heads, and meet a cast of delightfully quirky characters. Both socially awkward and bookish, Dash and Lily take solace in each others' company, albeit not in person. Lacking parental guardians, despite Lily’s wealth of zany family members throughout the city, the teens adventure through their own hometown, through Christmas, snow, and festivity.
Lily not only loves Christmas but practically lives and breathes it as well. Dejected during the holidays as her parents take off for a tropical vacation and her brother holes up with his boyfriend, Lily is left on her own with only a book of dares to entertain her, and keep her out of her brother’s hair. Sheltered her entire life with a reluctant alter-ego known as Shrilly, childishly naïve Lily expects to find a best friend out of the notebook. She hardly expected logophile, holiday-cynic Dash to pick up her journal, but a friendship strikes without even knowing his name, and emotions transfer to paper in a way no speech can convey.
Like all of Cohn and Levithan’s collaborations, the setting is New York City, in the bustling this time of Christmas. Passing the notebook back and forth between each other upon the completion of dares (such as rubbing pedophile Santa’s belly, a scene filled with laughter; and sitting through Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, a movie positively atrocious to the Christmas-spirited Lily), the two come to know each other intimately. Before they even meet each other, they know each other’s secrets and dreams. The developing relationship is fluid, but not without its share of drama and complications. Tender and witty, readers will find themselves rooting for the blooming romance.
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan make a brilliant team, with their unique voices. They harmonize in the manner of whimsy evident in all their writing. As different as their voices are their characters, but it all works together so well. While the teenagers are hardly realistic, especially in the case of Dash, they remain believable, existing through their fantastic portrayal. Told in alternating chapters from Dash and Lily’s views, readers are taken on a trip through New York City, in to each others’ heads, and meet a cast of delightfully quirky characters. Both socially awkward and bookish, Dash and Lily take solace in each others' company, albeit not in person. Lacking parental guardians, despite Lily’s wealth of zany family members throughout the city, the teens adventure through their own hometown, through Christmas, snow, and festivity.