DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES By Rachel Cohn AND David Levithan

January 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment

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DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES By Rachel Cohn AND David LevithanDash & Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan, Rachel Cohn
Series: Dash & Lily #1
Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on 10/26/10
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 274
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges.

What follows is a whirlwind romance as Dash and Lily trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City. But can their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions, or will their scavenger hunt end in a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

Short and Sweet Review

It’s the holiday season and while at a bookstore Dash finds a notebook waiting for someone to accept the challenge and complete the dares inside. Lily is just trying to find the right guy and hopefully the notebook will help her succeed. These two end up leaving the notebook in different places and doing different dares and at one point it’ll bring them together, but are these two right for each other?

This book has a fun plot, two teens going around New York City around Christmas time completing dares and maybe finding true love in the process. The problem with this book is the characters. Dash is like a hipster or something and Lily is awkward and quirky and doesn’t really have friends her own age. Lily’s dialogue is childish she’s a child in a teenagers body. I didn’t connect with either character. This is the second book I’ve read by Cohn and Levithan and for some reason I just don’t connect with their characters and somehow end up regret the time I spend reading their books, that being said, I probably won’t continue on with this series.

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NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST By Rachel Cohn AND David Levithan

August 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment

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NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST By Rachel Cohn AND David LevithanNick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by David Levithan, Rachel Cohn
Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on 11/13/07
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 194
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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Nick frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart. Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world. They have nothing in common except for their taste in music, until a chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming a first date that could change both their lives.

Short and Sweet Review

Nick is in an Indie rock band and has just broken up with his girlfriend. Norah has also broken up with her boyfriend and by a stoke of luck is at a concert that Nick’s band is having. When Nick sees his ex girlfriend at the concert he asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes and that is the beginning of their “relationship.”

This book was one of the worst books that I’ve read this year maybe of all time. I don’t know if it was because it was published in 2007 and the authors think that teens talk the way Norah and Nick do but I just cringed anytime these two talked even their inner monologue was awful. These two basically had a curse in almost every sentence they spoke. Besides the awful dialogue this book was boring, They’re both trying to get over their exes and realize that they like each other. I’m still not quite sure what the plot was because my brain has been trying to erase everything about this book from my memory. I will say I’ve read quite a few books with the lets pretend to date and then the characters fall for each other trope and unfortunately Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist does not pull it off. There’s really not much else I can say about the book it was pretty short and that’s the only positive thing about it.

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