Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn

And that brings us to today (ages and ages later), where we get to revisit the titular Dash and Lily as they journey overseas for a London adventure. Did I subsequently get super annoyed that my library didn’t have the complete trilogy, and insisted that they order me the final book immediately? Also yes. ( )ĭid I totally freak out last year when Netflix made a tv adaptation of Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares? Answer: yes. While this book leaves the characters in a satisfying place and like I said there didn’t seem to be a ton of story mined here, still, I wouldn’t be mad at another book checking in on them during another holiday season somewhere down the road. I did feel like this could have been more descriptive when it came to the London setting, their sight seeing was a little more glossed over than I would have preferred, I especially craved more detail from the Christmas market, but the grandeur of Claridges very much came across and for those here for the Christmas content there’s a decent amount of British traditions covered including the food. Ultimately Dash’s situation resolved too easily but I liked the process of Lily pulling away from her family a little to forge her own path and determining (with Dash’s help) how to go about building a solid future based on her love of dogs and crafting. Lily also makes a new friend in Azra who I liked very much and wished she’d had a larger role in the story.Īs for that story it’s Dash and Lily in London a few days before Christmas trying to figure out their futures, for Dash going to Oxford isn’t everything he thought it would be and Lily’s being pressured to attend Barnard when she really wants a dog-related career.

Many of the characters from the previous two books appear (albeit not at length) while adding a few more like Dash’s grandmother who to me wasn’t distinguishable enough from Mrs. Always enjoyable to revisit these two characters at Christmas, particularly Lily, though this book did tend to circle the same ground over and over, the plot seeming stretched thin.

Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn