9/27/12 - Dash and Lily's Book of Dares

Here is another book published by David Levithan but this time, he is joined by another author named Rachel Cohn. This is not the first time they wrote a book together. Their other works include Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist which was adapted to a movie a few years ago.

This book came out around 2010 but since I didn't follow David Levithan's career until this year, I only found out this book lately.

The book is told in two different points of view from the 2 lead characters, Dash and Lily.They are young kids who exchange messages through a red notebook. The timeline in this story is set in Christmas time which is not quite long and you can finish reading this quickly.

Lily is a young girl who allowed her parents to have a long-deserved honeymoon on Christmas season which leaves her under the care of her brothers. She receives a red notebook and leaves it at the book store with dares written on it, waiting to be picked up by any random stranger, upon the advise of her brother.

Dash, short for Dashiell, is a smart kid who has a knack for words and is a frequent visitor at the book store. He eventually finds Lily's red notebook and that is where we see the story flows as we see them trade each other with dares and what they come across as they try to know each other and possibly come face-to-face. 

I like how both characters kept this form of communication all throughout the story and it somehow gave them an idea of their dream girl/boy in their heads.

It's a cute story filled with adventure and humor that can make you smile from time to time. I like that despite the characters being young kids, they are quite smart and likeable.

I read that the two authors wrote this book by writing each chapter separately, although not through a red notebook like the characters did, it's still interesting how they came up with this story without pre-planning everything before writing the whole novel.

After reading 2 books by Levithan, one of them I have talked about here, I have 2 more Levithan books here on my computer and I can't wait to start reading them!