✨ "It's incredible how one conversation can change how someone looks to you." ✨
SOME SPOILER-FREE THOUGHTS: As the third book in the series, I was both excited and ready for Henry's story! What I got was far beyond anything I expected! I loved the meet cute, the banter, and the spice that Hannah Grace is so great at delivery, but the depth of our two main characters as they figured things out (for both themselves, each other, and together) was wholly a unique experience that I've never seen reflected in any other book or characters. This book truly surprised me with each chapter; made my heart beat, break, and burst! I loved every second of it!
Author: hannah grace
Finished: october 04, 2024
Reading Method: paperback
Star Rating: 5/5 ⭐
Spice Rating: 3/5 🌶️
What To Expect:
✨ Strangers to Friends to Best Friends to Lovers
✨ Opposites Attract
✨ Slow Burn
✨ College Romance
✨ Hockey Captain MMC
✨ Book Girly FMC
✨ They Make a Rule Book
✨ Tutoring Trope
✨ Found Family
✨ Neurodivergent Rep
✨ Third Book in Series
✨ Semi-Fake Dating
✨ Dual POV
SPOILERS IN
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✨ "You're the only person I like listening to talk about books." ✨
Wow. I just... I honestly don't know how to process all my feelings after finishing this book. Halle's patience and understanding, but journey to learning how to stand up for herself and prioritize her mental health. Henry's heart and candor, but discovery that he can let people in to understand what he needs to best manage situations. Their instant spark that led to them building a foundation of friendship that allowed them to rely on one another because of the trust they felt.
It was all perfect.
The role of family throughout was also so cleverly crafted to weave into their character development.
Halle's family is overbearing and at some point she's built up trauma responses to their constant need for her management so she doesn't understand that their love isn't conditional. When Will breaks up with her, that adds another layer to that fear—will her family hate her because she is no longer with their best friend's son? So then having to lie about her relationship and give up the little time in the school year she actually enjoys with her family so as not to disappoint them further, it's all too much!
Then we have Henry who grew up just easily good at most things, even when he feels and handles things differently than his moms or others might expect him to. With two loving and supportive parents who are both extremely successful themselves, it's only natural for him to start crumbling under the pressure of the one thing that doesn't come naturally to him: leadership as the hockey captain. And he doesn't want to disappoint the found family he has in his team, so he just pushed through even when it's burning him for the inside out.
They so easily connect because are the same, but opposite. Halle lives in constant fear that she's the reason people don't want to love her while Henry has people literally throwing themselves to be with him. Henry spends most of his time stressing that he's going to say or do the wrong thing in a social situation while Halle knows exactly how to bend herself to make people happy.
All they really needed was each other.
And of course the two of them together is pure magic. Like lightning in a bottle, Grace expertly captures the naiveté of being young and learning what it means to have both physical and emotional relationships, and the power when they collide.
And wow! When things collided for the two of them! The slow burn was so confusing because as badly as I was ready for them to connect romantically, I was also loving the friendship they were developing along the way. But having that as they started to adventure into a physical relationship—especially with Henry being so respectful of Halle's inexperience and trust issues after Will's constant pressure and relationship conditions—made the fire that caught at the end of the slow burn that much more exciting to experience!
I really feel like this book gave me so much more than I ever could have asked it to and for that, I am so thankful and I just want to say for all the people in the back:
✨ I LOVE BOOKS! ✨
The power of books is just so incredible! So I'm passing along that power by saying you MUST go read Daydream by Hannah Grace! Especially for all my book besties who loved her first two books and are looking for a little extra magic and something unexpected in their next read!
All My Love,
Jane-Anne
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