David Levithan, Rachel Cohn: Dash and Lily's Book of Dares (2014, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited)
309 pages
English language
Published May 3, 2014 by Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited.
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.
An okay read, but neither Dash nor Lily are fleshed out enough to care much about. I hate to say it, but the TV show was better.
Total disappointment!
Pretentious, boring and not Christmas-y at all.
While browsing through the stacks of his favorite bookstore, Dash finds a red notebook filled with directions for a treasure hunt of sorts, if he's up to the challenge. This was written by the authors who did "Nick and Norah's infinite playlist" and while I didn't read that book I have seen the movie, and I got a lot of the same vibe from this movie : light, fluffy, cute, but not really a book to take too seriously. It's about two teenagers looking for something a little more than what they have. Cute, but not the best thing I've read in a while. Very quick, entertaining read.
