this book means EVERYTHING to me. i see myself so deeply within halle that it was almost scary. her fears, her apprehension, her interests, her isolation were written in such a way that i forgot that i was reading. hannah grace's books always feel like a combination of reading my own diary and talking to a friend, and daydream was no different. henry might actually be the love of my life. he was so kind, so gentle, so caring, and so real in his own way. i find it uncommon for the male love interests to have their own mental illnesses that serve as a realistic plot point and character trait, but hannah grace handled this so nicely. i honestly can't believe he's not an actual person with how real this character was.

their relationship was so sweet and made me feel so comfortable. i really loved seeing it develop. i also loved seeing how to maple hills world developed in this book! all of the characters that we know and love, plus some new ones, and a fun intermingling of them all. i want to join halle's book club. i want to go to the hockey parties. i wish i was at aurora's birthday sleepover.

this book felt like a warm hug. 5/5 stars, will be rereading every day of my life.

thank you so much to atria for the arc ilysm

This was adorable! I have to admit, I DNF'd Icebreaker and thought Wildfire was cute, but ultimately not a favorite. Daydream completely took over my brain. I read it in under twenty-four hours to the exclusion of my other hobbies. I would recommend to any romance reader, but especially readers who struggle to get into sports romance. There are some fun easter eggs in here for Taylor Swift fans, too. There were certain points where I felt like I was getting lost in the increasingly large cast of characters, but that's to be expected as the series gets longer (and since I failed to finish the first one, that's probably on me).

4.5/5

I knew I was going to enjoy Daydream since I loved the previous Maple Hills books, but I think Daydream has been my favorite one yet! I loved Henry and Halle. They were so genuine and I loved seeing their relationship grow and develop. It was also great being able to see glimpses of the characters from the previous books.

Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

SO BEAUTIFUL
henrys story was so worth the wait and the dynamics both platonically and romantically in the book were so fun to read about. this book was such a fun and enjoyable read and halle is such a perfect addition to the maple hills group <3

“Thank you for giving me the love I could never picture.”

and a big thank you to NetGalley for the arc!

A HUGE thank you to the author, Hannah Grace, and the publisher, Atria Books, for giving me the chance to read an ARC of this wonderful book and provide my honest opinion about it.

A Maple Hills romance by Hannah Grace always hits the right spot.
Just gorgeous, like the previous books in the series.
(Can the last one get even better than the previous?)

Daydream is the third book in a series. I really enjoyed this title and have already placed book one on hold so I can read it next. This title would appeal to YA and adult romance readers. It was so cute and fun.

This book was touching, cute, and drew me in from the very start. I'm looking forward to recommending it to fellow romance readers.

Okay but how precious was this? The communication. The working on yourself to be ready to be in a relationship?

And taking a step away from Henry but the absolute power of female friendships has me swooning.

Could not put down, and read this in under 48 hours. Will read anything and everything happening at Maple Hills.

While Hannah Grace's latest couldn't beat Wildfire for me (hey, I'm a camp girlie through and through!), I did enjoy it and find it particularly cute for a slow burn, fake dating, bookish and sports romance. Also, I truly love the diversity and watching a plus-size main character fall in love with a person of color. Love when romances aren't so white-washed, it's just like "been-there-done-that."

Daydream reads quite quickly thanks to intriguing language and plenty (and I mean, plenty) of banter. However, some of the included text messages can be difficult to know who is speaking without proper headers or font changes. It was a little bit confusing at each turn. Overall, Daydream is very cute, I give it that but it's just not my all-time favorite. Can still swoon over Halle and Henry's romance, no question.

Hannah Grace continues to create characters who you just want to love, flaws and all. As someone with neurodivergent children, reading how Henry thinks and reacts to situations puts into words what my older children struggle to share with me. Henry and Halle are exactly what each other need to bring out the best in one another.. Halle needs to see herself as worthy of admiration and respect and Henry needs to see that even though his brain and body react differently in many situations than others, that it’s not wrong, it’s just one more thing that makes him unique. Daydream is a quick paced love story full of humor, friendship and a bit of spice, that leaves you smiling all the way to the end.

4.25⭐️

As someone who was not a fan of Icebreaker and did not read Wildfire, I was worried this book wouldn't be for me, but I am shocked by how much I enjoyed it! This was such a joy to read, and I can really see the growth in Hannah Grace's writing. Halle and Henry are characters that I can identify with and their dynamic is just too cute. I would definitely recommend this as a stand-alone to any romance reader regardless of if they are a Maple Hills fan or not. It is the perfect cozy romance read that I believe most readers will enjoy.

Cute book #3. I liked that it could easily stand alone as a book but still had fun references to prior books. It was a nice story but for me it was difficult to identify with Henry.. one minute he’s sleeping with everyone and the next he needs to be left alone. I like the neurodivergent aspect of him but felt he was a bit contradictory to himself. Overall enjoyable fun read.

screaming, crying, throwing up, i loved this so much. this was the soft, and kind read I needed. i made the mistake of starting this on my commute to my internship bc i spent the entire day between meetings reading. Henry's story was well worth the wait, and I kinda loved how not-perfect Henry and Halle were. I find that so often characters like Halle get with someone who takes the load off of her shoulders, but Henry wasn't fully that and I found that far more realistic.

thank you to netgalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review

It feels good to be back into the Maple Hills world.

The romance was great - Halle’s horrible ex is from a rival team so OF COURSE we live for the drama. I also loved that Henry was an artist and that their story didn’t rely solely on hockey, especially since Halle’s life before Henry was literally just that. I also like seeing snippets into how the characters from other books are doing and seeing them all come together.

Also, Henry is THE SWEETEST.

Halle wanting to be author was a little off for me at first because it’s so overdone as a character trait at this point, but it was important for the plot to have Henry help her with “experiences,” so I get it and it was ended up being cute. I think she grew into herself a lot throughout the story which made her actions become more understandable.

I appreciated the fact that Henry and Halle were both extremely emotionally aware, even though they felt a little too aware at times. I never thought characters could over-communicate, but sometimes it did become a little exhausting to hear Halle constantly trying to have reassurance of her friends.

Overall, of course I enjoyed this and will read anything that Hannah rights at this point.

Having read the previous books in the Maple Hills series, I can definitely see so much growth in Hannah Grace's writing. This book has been the best and my favorite. Both characters felt realistic, allowing for most readers to have at least one thing in connection with Henry and Halle. Lots of romance books tend to focus only on the romance, but this title really focused on the true partnership that should exist in romantic relationships.

At this point I'll read anything Hannah Grace writes. I've read both Icebreaker and Wildfire, and every time I try to rank them in my head, I can't decide which one is my favorite. I could relate to Halle's character really well in some aspects with her family issues, which made me pretty attached to her. One thing I love about this series is that there's never a huge conflict between the main characters. Most romance novels, they get together, something bad happens, they break up, then they come back together. The climax for Hannah Grace's books always have to do with conflict that's outside of the relationship. The story isn't just about the couple, but about their growth and how they come into their own to handle the recurring problems they have with something else, whether that's family, friends, exes, or mental health. I never have to stress about emotional turmoil or something bad happening, which is sometimes exactly what you need in a book.

First off, I loveddddd Wildfire so much, so I was really excited about Daydream being announced and getting another taste of the Maple Hills world again. And it lived up to all I was looking for!!! The writing is also so good and I always feel like I’m talking to a friend on FT or face to face when reading her books, it’s humorous and personal and sad and everything in between!!
I absolutely love Hannah Grace’s characters and Halle and Henry are my favorite!! They’re so perfect for each other (even their names sound perfect together.) They complimented each other so well and it was such a healthy representation of love and relationships!
As someone who is a people pleaser, I connected with Halle so much, in how she was sort of the mediator in her family and helped her mom and never spoke up for herself but did everything for everyone else. This book is very much for the older siblings out there, or the people that had to grow up fast to be that older sibling. This is represented so well and realistically and seeing the growth in Halle’s character by the end was drastic but great to see and so inspiring! And this is also where Henry comes in and makes it so obvious he is what she deserved all along and perfect for her, he put her first ;)
And with Henry, there was such a big representation of ADHD and how little mundane tasks for others, can be overall thought consuming and impossible for those with ADHD. Even for those reading that aren’t diagnosed with ADHD, this book is really fun and cute and entertaining yes, but also educational to see how it can be for someone and be able to understand and see it firsthand and show up for those around you.
I, of course, very much disliked the character Will and any part including him so that was a downside. He is the opposite of Henry and everything good in the world. Actually gross and disgusting and so deserving, of everything bad! (He needs the money, for therapy!)
Like I mentioned, I loved the previous books and Daydream is in the same friend group, so all the couple cameos and mentions in this book tied everything together for them and it was so nice seeing them and how they’re doing!!
Overall, there was so much love and self discovery/growth with such a deeper meaning with a lot to take away besides it being a cute easy to read romance book, which it definitely is!

I recommend 100% at any time of the year but more specifically pick the book up when it comes out August 27th, maybe even for a book club? ;) and cozy up with coffee!!

Thank you so much to Hannah Grace and Netgalley/Atria Books for the E copy ARC in exchange for my honest review!

hannah grace ALWAYS knows what she is doing! this book cured my childhood heart, in moments where i was teary eyed reading about miss hallie jacobs. she is the example of grace and kindness, someone so perfect for our loveable henry. this friends to lovers, tutor and jock relationship is so incredibly soft. i love that their relationship didn’t send me through a roller coaster of emotions, but enough to where i could relate as humanly as possible. i adore them, they are my babies, and i want to thank hannah grace for bringing back simple love.

A solid read overall. I really loved this book at the beginning of it, but truthfully around the middle the shine wore off. Somewhere along the way the writing became too generalized (we knew the character is writing a book and we vaguely hear about the plot but never see her writing it, Henry plays hockey and stresses about his captaincy but we never see him play or use the sport to grow and deal with conflict), and the teachable moments were a bit too obvious to have any natural flow. But, all that being said, this was a very appropriate book for YA! Only one explicit scene, and even that was written as if for YA with no graphic descriptions of anything. This is definitely the Hannah Grace book I'd feel good handing 12-13 year olds so that's a relief!

I loved Henry in Icebreaker so I was very excited to read Henry’s story. While Henry and Halle seem perfect for each other, there was just no build up or no chemistry for me. This book felt too long. It took my too long to finish. This wasn’t a book that I found myself staying up way too late to finish. Instead I was falling asleep while reading it. I really wanted to like this one because I love Henry’s character, and I like this series.