Youre in your favorite bookstore, scanning the shelves. It was published in 2010 and written by rachel cohn and david levithan. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. Left alone in new york city during the holidays, dash and lily embark on a strange journey after one of them finds the others red notebook. They start to get to know each other more and figure out that they. Lilys grandfather had a heart attack and has a rocky road to recovery, leaving lily sad during her favorite time of yearchristmas. Its been a year since we left the couple, and since then, things have been rough. Dash and lilys book of dares by haley road on prezi. Dash and lilys book of dares is the third collaboration between writers rachel cohn and david levithan. Dash and lily have had a tough year since readers first watched the couple fall in love. Their second, naomi and elys no kiss list, was named a new york public library book for the teen age. Throughout the first half of the book, i was just reading, learning about dash and lily while the dares themselves would take a small part in each chapter.
We read dash and lilys book of dares by david levithan and rachel cohn, a book about booklovers in nyc at christmas. The notebook is full of clues that promise to be the beginning of an adventure. I particularly liked dashs voice over that of lilys, i found lily to be a little uptight and a little immature for a 16 year old but it matches her character so it wasnt a big pet peeve, dash on the other hand is a very good narrator, the reference of different books. Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions. The story switches between dashs and lilys point of view. We agreed there was plenty of wisdom in the characters of dash and lily, some with which even grownups could. A great novel with an interesting premise and a few laughs along the way. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. The main conflict of the story and the character of lily remind me of lindsey stirlings story for her album shatter me.
I wasnt a big fan of lily or dash but i think lily was the most likeable of the two. Whether or not it meets that potential is a toss up. New york times bestselling authors rachel cohn and david levithan are back with a lifeaffirming christmas romance starring dash and lily. If you dont, put the book back on the shelf, please. Both she and lily have a fear of breaking the shell theyre encased in, but they. So i decided it was time for a reread and im so glad i did because i loved it just as much as i. The falling action is when dash and lily get trapped in the basement of the bookstore together. As a booklover one has to love this book even more just because of its setting and various relations to books. In some ways, what we have in dash and lilys book of dares is an old story. Its their third collaboration, after they wrote nick and norahs infinite playlist in 2006 and naomi and elys no kiss list in 2007.
I am myself both a a book lover and b a lover of new york city so this book appealed to me immensely. Although they did not pass the chapters back and forth in a red moleskine notebook, they did email them to each other without planning anything out beforehand. Whats the story two teens, left alone in manhattan for christmas, develop a connection when she leaves a notebook full of literary clues at the strand bookstore and he follows the clues and leaves some of his own. A scavenger hunt that takes place in wintertime new york. Dash does and is fascinated with the feminine mind that could have made up the puzzle. It was announced that this would be the first of two new collaborations. Dash and lilys book of dares by rachel cohn and david. In discussing the book with others who have read itall adults ranging from their 20s to 40sthere was division. You get to the section where a favorite authors books reside, and there, nestled in comfortably between the incredibly familiar spines, sits a red notebook. Dash and lilys book of dares is a contemporary romance young adult novel which takes place in wintertime new york. Dash and lily are each spending the winter holidays without their parents, and they begin sending each other on more ridiculous and risky missions, abetted by friends. This story is written in the dual perspective of the two main characters. The basic idea i think is great, but the execution could be different.
Hes looking through the shelves a few days before christmas when he finds a notebook that dares the person who finds it to solve a couple of clues. Dash and lilys book of dares is guaranteed to have you grinning from the first page and wondering why real life keeps getting in the way of allowing you to read straight through. The story unfolds in alternating viewpoint chapters narrated by dash and lily, two bookish, lonely teenagers living in new york city. The same way i thought dash and lily were already adults instead of teenagers. I havent read this book yet but it definitely seems like a fault in our starts esc book. Dash and lilys book of dares is incredibly easy to read.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Ive never read any of rachel cohn, but from the two levithan novels ive read this is exactly what i expect. Lilys beloved grandfather suffered a heart attack, and his difficult road to recovery has taken a major toll on her typically sunny disposition. Dash is a teenage boy, who upon visiting his favorite book store, finds a scavenger hunt between the pages of one of his favorite book. As i was saying, though, i really loved both lily and dash, and thats a huge part of what made the book for me. It took me around new york in the busiest time of the year with dashs abhorrence versus lilys ecstasy for the holidays.
I didnt love it as much as id hoped, but i was interested enough in finding out what happened to dash and lily. Dash and lilys voice are fun to read, their story fanciful. Dash and lilys book of dares is the sophomore contemporary romance from the writing duo best known for nick and norahs infinite playlist. Lily leaves a notebook in the strand bookshop in new york, hoping to make a connection with a likeminded stranger over the holiday season. And right away you know this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. In this novel, dash finds a notebook in his favorite bookstore. But thats only what this book is about on a very surface level. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a.