A review by krisglomb
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

3.0

Cute! Very classic grumpy meets sunshine with a storytelling element (communicating via notebook) that fills the reader with just as much yearning and anticipation as the characters have. I didn’t like either of our MCs (I liked Lily but irl my guess would be that I couldn’t stand her), but it didn’t bother because they felt real and I learned enough about them to appreciate them as fully formed characters. Lots of the side characters were really fun, and this fictional small town version of NYC was a fun world to fall into. The pacing was rough, I found myself skimming through some pages near the end when the characters started talking in circles. There were a lot of diary-esque entries that were carrying the emotional weight that instead ending up dragging and feeling like I didn’t need to read them and could wait for the action if the story to happen. I might pick up another in the series next holiday season.