Publication
date: October
26, 2010
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780375866593
Synopsis
What do
you do when you find a strange book on in the shelf where your favorite books
reside, what do you do?
Obviously
you pick it up and do whatever the book tells.
And
that is basically how Dash’s winter adventure started and he got into the road
to meet Lily.
Review
Dash
& Lily’s book of dares is between my summer picks, I picked this book on a
hot day and thank goodness it made me forget all about the heat (in case you
didn’t notice I am not a hot weather person, I feel like the wizard of Oz witch
when she is screaming I’m MELTING!!!!). Now don’t get me wrong this isn’t a
book that I would just recommend for summer this book is a good read at any
season and any day of the year is a good one to start Dash and Lily’s Book of
Dares.
Dash
and Lily don’t voice out the way that normal teenagers do, instead of feeling
like you are reading a regular teen it’s more like you are reading
representative from the quirky awesome minority group. And by the way this is
done I can assure you I’m saying this as a good thing.
This is
not a book I would aloud myself to read in public, this books sense of humor is
just great there was a lot of grinning, smiling and laughing, so… that might be
a thing you might want to consider if you haven’t graduated from the book
reading poker face academy.
Rachel
Cohn and David Levithan make a great work at mixing a boy and girl’s point of
view in this interesting quest of two people trying to know each other via the
Book of Dares, no cellphones, no facebook, no technology to get in the way of
the two of them knowing each other, not even their faces get in the way or
really discovering who the other is in the middle of the busiest time of the
year in New York city and this digital age.
I would call this book a must read, but
honestly you will be the ones making the call and I hope that if you do pick up
you enjoy it more or at least as much as I did.
Rating:
I love David, so this book is high on my wishlist, I am so glad you loved it and your comment about not reading in public made me giggle! The characters sound original which i adore. I have not read ant of Cohn's work, so this should be a nice intro too it! Wonderful review Lil!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any individual work from Cohn or David but I am really excited on getting to know them better.
ReplyDeleteHope you get to enjoy it when you get a chance to read it :)
I have never read anything from those two authors but it seems like they have a lot of fans. Dash and Lily themselves sound great, I love unique characters. Great review, and thanks for stopping by my blog!
ReplyDeleteThis is my first experience with them and I can't wait to see what other books they have written and will write :D
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