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Title: Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
Authors: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Narrators: Tara Sands and Ryan Gesell
Series: Dash & Lily
Series Number: 1
Genre: Christmas, Holiday, Romance, Contemporary Fiction
Audience: Young Adult
Format: Audiobook
My Review:
I’m not a huge romance reader and even less of a young adult romance reader but I’ve watched my share of rom-coms and this is a rom-com with the cutest of meet cutes. I adored it.
And what reader could resist its charms? Dash and Lily’s paths cross when Lily leaves a red notebook with a dare hidden inside on the shelves of The Strand, a huge institution of a bookstore in New York City. Dash finds the notebook, accepts the dare, and the game is on.
I loved following along with Dash & Lily’s adventures across New York City and meeting their eccentric friends and family. Getting to know them as characters was delightful. There was just enough will they/won’t they to keep me eagerly listening.
Tara Sands and Ryan Gesell’s narrations were each excellent. I thought they sounded convincingly like teens without sounding condescending to the age group. These are thoughtful, intelligent teens who also like to have fun and they captured that tone well.
I highly recommend listening to this if you’re looking for something romantic and fun to brighten your holidays.
Synopsis from GoodReads:
A whirlwind romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, soon to be a Netflix original series starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis!
Lily 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?
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