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A review by divineauthor
Daydream by Hannah Grace
lighthearted
1.0
“You’re my perfect canvas, Halle. Every part of you.” —Henry Turner, page 268
according to grace’s acknowledgments, this book’s word count is 125k, and i felt that it needed . . . none of that. unfortunately, my general thoughts about DAYDREAM is that it’s incredibly uninspired which might actually be a worse insult imo. i’ve read some bad books in my time, but i was at least entertained in a morbidly curious way. this book book is the equivalent of a decaf coffee with too much cream—boring and tasteless and doesn’t do shit!
some issues off the top of my head:
• setting: maybe i wouldn’t mind it so much if i wasn’t from los angeles, but i need authors to do a little more research about where they set their books because this was honestly laughable. this was so not LA in any way shape or form.
• diversity quota: quantity over quality (also, many weird remarks about how henry is of course not a misogynist / not like other guys because he was raised by two women . . . incredible how that is not simply the case). this also relates to the cast, wherein i didn’t give two shits about anyone, regardless of if they’re hot bookish lesbians! sorry, you fucking failed! all of these people are boring as hell.
• the main couple: i can appreciate and read a good trope if it’s at least interesting. grace does not handle halle and henry’s bookish inexperienced virgin x jock playboy trope with any art or passion. truly, a cardboard moment. not to mention that the sex wasn’t believable, nor was their chemistry.
• halle and henry as characters: both of their . . . flaws (halle’s eldest daughter syndrome and Henry’s audhd tendencies) felt lackluster to me. i love, love, love an eldest sibling character (famously, historically so) and to be given one without any bite to her was just sad. and henry? bro i cannot even lie to you. i just did not care.
anyway, not a fun read. will probably never read any of grace’s other books. love n light to u all.
according to grace’s acknowledgments, this book’s word count is 125k, and i felt that it needed . . . none of that. unfortunately, my general thoughts about DAYDREAM is that it’s incredibly uninspired which might actually be a worse insult imo. i’ve read some bad books in my time, but i was at least entertained in a morbidly curious way. this book book is the equivalent of a decaf coffee with too much cream—boring and tasteless and doesn’t do shit!
some issues off the top of my head:
• setting: maybe i wouldn’t mind it so much if i wasn’t from los angeles, but i need authors to do a little more research about where they set their books because this was honestly laughable. this was so not LA in any way shape or form.
• diversity quota: quantity over quality (also, many weird remarks about how henry is of course not a misogynist / not like other guys because he was raised by two women . . . incredible how that is not simply the case). this also relates to the cast, wherein i didn’t give two shits about anyone, regardless of if they’re hot bookish lesbians! sorry, you fucking failed! all of these people are boring as hell.
• the main couple: i can appreciate and read a good trope if it’s at least interesting. grace does not handle halle and henry’s bookish inexperienced virgin x jock playboy trope with any art or passion. truly, a cardboard moment. not to mention that the sex wasn’t believable, nor was their chemistry.
• halle and henry as characters: both of their . . . flaws (halle’s eldest daughter syndrome and Henry’s audhd tendencies) felt lackluster to me. i love, love, love an eldest sibling character (famously, historically so) and to be given one without any bite to her was just sad. and henry? bro i cannot even lie to you. i just did not care.
anyway, not a fun read. will probably never read any of grace’s other books. love n light to u all.