2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to discuss Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn, the first book in the Dash & Lily series.

Pages: 260 pages


Length: 1 Month (November)


Participants: Eirelyn, Elaine.


Everyone reads at their own pace during a Buddy Read. Because participants can be at different parts of the book at different times, it is extremely important to mark spoilers so that the book is not ruined for someone who is not as far along as others!!!

Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.

This has been on my TBR stack for years...nice to finally get to it!

I'm excited. :D I caught the Dash & Lily series on Netflix last Christmastime & thought it was so cute. So I knew I wanted to read this (& hopefully The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily in December) this year.

I enjoyed this book more than I thought I might. I burned myself out on YA a few years ago and have only recently been making forays into the genre again. Most of my recent attempts have not been successful so I was very happy when the first chapter of this book grabbed me. I know a part of that was the way it was written - this entire book felt like an ode to language. Parts of that were literally written into the story, but much of it was just the way the authors crafted their story. For everything that I caught, I am sure fifteen other things were missed. I enjoyed the characters of both Dash and Lily and felt that neither were too twee or unbelievable. (view spoiler)[ I appreciated the authors letting both characters be realistically messy and to be works in progress...Dash's sharp edges and Lily's hesitancy towards change were relatable. (hide spoiler)]

I haven't started this one yet, but I'm really looking forward to it. Even more so now after your post about it. :D