Do you dare?
In this cute contemporary, we met Dash and Lily, two smart and quirky characters who communicated primarily through a red notebook. Lily's older brother had the idea to create a notebook with clues to follow and leave it in the stacks of the Strand bookstore. Dash, stumbled across it in his favorite haunt and was intrigued. He followed the clues and left some for Lily to follow as well. Over the course of a few weeks they communicated this way and seemed to form a bond in that they were both outcasts, each in their own way. The story was good but, could have been better had the situations been more realistic and the characters not been so pretentious. We get it, they're both really smart kids. They didn't need to spend pages of this rather short book quoting other books to show how well read they were. We could have used that time to form more realistic bonding between these two. By the end they still barely knew each other. They did have a cute young romance blooming, but then the book ended before we ever really got to see it come to fruition. By the time these two actually got together we were at the last page and left wanting more. I gave this three stars, if only because it ended too soon.
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