Dash and Lily's Book of Dares

'In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.'

The last Cohn-Levithan collaboration I read was Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist which I enjoyed throroughly because it was so straight to the point and excitable w/o being overly kitschy or cheesy it was simply pure adrenaline. The next collab I read was Dash and Lily's Book of Dares and it felt extremely remiscent of TFIOS but anyway this book was published way before TFIOS just that I read TFIOS first. Anyway since Cohn and Levithan did not write tgt and corresponded through email for Dash's and Lily's chapters separately, the writing style is starkingly different Levithan has a more mature a little pretentious vibe in the voice of Dash while Lily, came across as rather naive and annoyingly happy LIKE GURL HOW CAN YOU BE THIS INNOCENT?!?!?!?!?! She is being presented as a dorky yet cute in a nerdy way but a tad too childish and pure soccer girl WHICH BTW DOES NOT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE and Dash is extremely like able however at the end of the novel he kinda loses his street cred and becomes a complete opposite of what he was in the beginning. In my opinion the book would've been better if Dash got back with Sofia and Lily learnt to finally grow up. There were signs of Levithan hinting at Dash's buried feelings for Sofia and I thought that was pretty realistic but I preferred NANIP better than this it's a very chick flick book a movie worthy one but not very memorable pretty whimsy though but still I'm sticking with NANIFP maybe it's targeted audiences were older teens still a pretty interesting read.