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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.