I've read a few books by David Levithan, Every Day, Boy Meets Boy, Love Is The Higher Law, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (also with Rachel Cohn), and will grayson, will grayson (with John Green)(loved but can't find my review, I will try).
This was the first one that didn't make me feel like I had too keep reading and not put it down until I was done. I know it was made into a movie and since I liked other books by this author I grabbed it for free from paperbackswap.com. It wasn't bad but I didn't truly love it either.
Nick & Norah meet at a club when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend when he sees the girl who shredded his heart coming towards him with her new guy. Norah is in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time so gets asked by the stranger next to her to be his five minute girlfriend. Got that?
When that the girl turns out to be Tris, someone Norah has a hate/tolerates relationship with she jumps in with both feet...err, lips and kisses Nick. And he is a great kisser.
What follows is a night spent talking music, kissing, more than kissing, eating perogies and kielbasa, trying to start Nick's car and other such adventures.
I loved that the story takes place in my home city, NYC. I didn't love that for the first time reading one of Mr. Levithan's books I felt a little too old. I loved how you get Nick's voice and thoughts in every other chapter with Norah's voice in the ones in between and you can see them almost clicking and you know they are on the same page but can't see it. It's like being a fly on the wall.
So I guess my only complaint is that I felt a little too old for the book. Not the whole time, just at some points. But I really liked Nick & Norah and was hoping they'd figure things out.
Not one I would have bought but to borrow or get for free it was not a waste of time. It's not a long book and it was funny and touching.
(finished Feb. 2, 2013)
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