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Sage Cunningham thinks she has it all - an acceptance to Johns Hopkins and an opportunity to continue her work helping with cancer research in Amsterdam. She is single-minded in her academic pursuit and doesn't have time for a relationship. Enter Ryland, a flirty artist who just happens to be the son of the researcher she is working with - and also living with. They strike a deal where Ryland will help Sage with the care of his half brother and in turn, she will keep him from socializing too much so he can work on an art project. Will she be able to resist his charms?

Hot Dutch Daydream is a fun novel by Kristy Boyce. It's a fun and quick read, and I really enjoyed it. I loved the Amsterdam setting, which I don't see often in a YA novel.

This was so cute! I absolutely flew through this book in about 3 hours and it was just adorable!
I really loved both Sage (academic and has everything in her life planned out) and Ryland (flirty, sweet and artistic) as characters and as someone who works in childcare often found myself laughing and sympathising with Sage and her attempts to wrangle the 3 year old she was babysitting!
While this was a ya book it also didn’t feel overly ya which I liked, the characters definitely came across as their ages: 17 and 18, and mostly handled any problems that came up by communicating with each other even when it didn’t lead to the outcome they both wanted!

Overall this is a lighthearted, really cute and quick read!

I enjoyed this book but struggled to stay with it. Seemed a little slow at times. I really enjoyed the studying abroad aspect (something I encourage all students to do), but couldn’t connect with the main character. Maybe because I love to explore new areas and she was not particularly interested in doing that. It is a book I will recommend for teens looking for travel adventure or romance.

This was adorable! I love the opposites attract trope.

Sage is driven. Her life revolves around getting through the summer babysitting her mentor's three year old son, attending a prestigious conference, and starting school in the fall at John's Hopkins University. Her dream is to go into cancer research and she won't have any distractions along the way.

Then Ryland walks in. Well, he's not supposed to but there he is and Sage is completely caught off guard. Her mentor did not mention she had an older son and when his summer plans fall through Sage finds herself trying to stay focused on her work, babysitting Diederik and making it through each day without any hiccups.

I enjoyed Ryland's love of art. I found that it helped to balance out Sage's stick to the facts mentality. Sage pushed Ryland to stay focus while he got her to loosen up a bit and enjoy her time in Amsterdam.

The story was adorable, the characters fun, and the chemistry was definitely there! I recommend this to anyone who loves a good YA Rom Com set outside of the US. I wanted to walk the streets of Amsterdam with Sage and will be adding it to my definite travel bucket list!!

I really enjoyed this. Very YA but not childish. The FMC could have gone full Tracy Flick but thankfully didn’t.

I really enjoyed the story and cast of characters. A seeet love story about priorities.

NetGalley ARC review

*I received an e-arc via Netgalley and the publisher HarperTeen for review. Thank you! All thoughts are my own*

Hot Dutch Daydream was a fantastic follow up to Boyce’s debut of Hot British Boyfriend! Although this one can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading HBB before reading this one. I found that I didn’t want to put this one down, and it’s the perfect summer read. I totally wanted to travel somewhere while reading! For fans of smart girls, artistic boys, interesting family dynamics, travel and a slow burn romance, I highly recommend this one!

Sage Cunnigham has always been super focused. Her summer plans include interning in Dr. Reese’s lab in Amsterdam before starting her freshman year of college. Sage agrees to nanny for her mentor’s three-year-old son Diedrick in order to pay for the trip, which includes an important conference in Berlin.

Shortly after her arrival in Amsterdam, Sage is surprised by the unexpected addition of Dr. Reese’s teenage son Ryland. His personality is the exact opposite of hers, he’s flirtatious, spontaneous, and impulsive. He’s an artist who really needs someone to help keep him focused. Nannying is harder than Sage expected it to be, and she feels as though she needs help too.

The pair strikes a deal. Sage will keep Ryland from going out with friends all the time and Ryland will help out with his little brother. They figure that working together will keep distractions away and they’ll both be able to focus. Or will they?

Sage and Ryland are such great characters! I love how Sage is so driven towards her goals, and she doesn’t let anything stand in the way of her dreams. Ryland is such a sweet and supportive character. He really encouraged Sage and got her to open up and also do some fun things while being away from home. They balanced each other out so well! There are some interesting family dynamics that are explored for both characters as well. I also love how we get updates from Sage’s best friends Ellie, Dev, and Huan from HBB and what they’ve been up to.

I think if you loved HBB and/or you’re a romance fan, you would love Hot Dutch Daydream. It’s releasing on April 18, 2023, and I hope you’ll give a try.

I picked this book up on a whim because I thought the title was funny, but I actually really adored this story!

We follow Sage, a student spending the summer watching her mentor’s three year old son in exchange for going to a cancer research conference. She’s not very interested in kids, but she thinks she can figure it out as she goes… until her mentor’s teenage son, Ryland, comes back home and screws up all her plans.

While Dr. Reese worries about the two teens being in the same house, Ryland and Sage get into an agreement: if Sage can get Ryland to actually focus on his art and not hang out with his friends 24/7, he’ll help her watch his younger brother so she can focus more on her cancer research dreams. And they will not catch feelings for each other.

I really enjoyed Sage and Ryland’s relationship and how the two inspired each other to be better! Throughout this book, Ryland creates a lot of art based on Sage and the things she says, while Sage realizes she can focus better on her things when she’s in the same room as Ryland. This helped the two feel like they were meant to be together and had me really enjoying seeing them work together.

The entire book is just a very feel-good, comforting read, and I really enjoyed myself with it! I’m definitely picking up Hot British Boyfriend, the companion book focused on Sage’s friend, soon so I can read more of this author’s writing!

Cute and interesting YA romance read. Definitely a light read. Would recommend this if your into fun romcom.

LOVED! This book was definitely tailor-made for me: a romance novel enthusiast who previously lived in Amsterdam. I was swooning not only from the romance, but also because of the details about my favorite city sprinkled in throughout the novel - the descriptions of the canals, famous foods like herring and bitterballen, and even some Dutch dialogue. I liked Sage and Ryland together and had fun watching their relationship unfold over the course of a summer. The reasons behind Sage's commitment to her craft (cancer research) were well fleshed out. It was clear Boyce did a lot of research for the setting and content of this novel!

Minus one star because it was overly cheesy and too YA at times, and I also really disliked the plot point about Sage messing up the data. I didn't think that was necessary; it detracted from the rest of the story.

Otherwise, I cannot wait to recommend this book to anyone and everyone!!

Sadly, this book missed the mark for me. The dialogue was stilted, and the characters were stiff and unrealistic. Sage was plain annoying. It's the second in the series, but I don't think it's necessary to read the first book, as each one seems to focus on a different main character. I didn't care for the language. However, I did like the Amsterdam setting, which was probably the only things I enjoyed.

This book is a worthy companion novel to Boyce's first book- Hot British Boyfriend, although you don't have to have read the first book to fall into the plot of this one. It takes place after the gang from Hot British Boyfriend returns home from their study-abroad experience at Emberton College; however, the main characters in that novel- Ellie and Dev- move to the background as Sage, their academically-driven friend becomes the main character.

From her time at Emberton, Sage has made connections in her chosen field of oncology research, and her mentor has invited her to spend the summer in Amsterdam as her nanny. She is also offered the opportunity to continue research and attend a conference in Berlin. Sage cannot pass up a chance at adding these experiences to her resume, so she agrees, despite some misgivings about caring for a toddler. Her mentor's son Ryland adds to the stress when he cuts short a summer trip, arrives back in Amsterdam, and wants to reclaim some of his workspace that Sage has appropriated.

No one is very concerned at first about the two teens in close proximity because they couldn't be more different.
However, Ryland knows how to handle a girl like Sage. She's basically a younger version of his brilliant, workaholic mother. Nor does Sage realize that Ryland is basically the male version of her best friend Ellie, creative and generous. In fact, they bring out the best in each other. The problem is that they are forbidden from dating because of the close quarters and issues of ethics and funding. There's also the fact that Sage will be at John's Hopkins in the fall, and Ryland will still be in Amsterdam. Is it possible that being together could ever be more than a dream?

This book and its companion are perfect for fans of A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow and anyone who wants to go abroad to find themselves.

Great story and I loved the Amsterdam setting. We visited back in 2018 and I found it to be a beautiful place to be. Ryland and Sage are great characters and u love how each of them were so dedicated to their respective crafts. I found the story to be paced just right and my only complaint was that Sage didn’t find a way to work a miracle with Rois Baatz. Other than that the book ended on a great note.

This book is a fun read and a great companion to Hot British Boyfriend! This one can stand alone by itself, though - no need to read HBB.

It's a cozy and fun little read, and with my own Dutch boyfriend, it was fun to experience Amsterdam through the eyes of someone else! It was fun to read the story as Sage worked through being an au pair while also trying to keep up with her academics. Sage's relationship with Ryland was adorable, and I love Ryland's attempts to win Sage over in his own charming way. I enjoyed visiting so many familiar places to me, and there were times I wished scenes kept going just because I miss the Netherlands so much!

The forbidden romance aspect isn't usually my favorite, but I could feel the nerves of having to sneak around between Sage and Ryland. I felt the ending was a bit lackluster, but the rest of the story more than made up for it.

Sage is spending her last summer before going to Johns Hopkins doing her best to improve her research and data analysis skills. She spent part of her senior year working in England with Dr. Reese, who has asked her if she will spend the summer being a nanny for Reese's son, three year old Diederik. In exchange, she will be able to attend an important oncology conference in Germany with her mentor. After her father passed away from lung cancer and her older sister, Wren, had a baby during her senior year in high school, Sage is determined to keep her focus on school and career rather than cluttering up her life with romance. This is hard when Dr. Reese's son, Ryland, comes home for the summer rather than continue on his backpacking trip. Dr. Reese doesn't trust Ryland with Diederick because he is an artist who is often distracted by his work or by his large group of friends. Dr. Reese would also like to see Ryland get "a real job" instead of selling artwork and working occasionally as a food tester. Sage finds Ryland cute but annoying, but he does come in handy when the tempermental Diederik has temper tantrums. Inspired by Sage's dedication to her work and her cutting comments about his own, Ryland asks Sage if she will try to keep him motivated in exchange for more help with his brother. Sage soon is in possession of Ryland's phone so the constant texts from friends don't distract him, and even turns away people at the door. The two work together in Ryland's studio in the evening. Sage is better able to balance her work for Dr. Reese with taking care of Diederik, and even gets out to see the city a bit more with Ryland's help. Ryland makes a lot of progress in completing work to enter a local competition. When Sage starts to fall for Ryland, despite Dr. Reese's express request NOT to get romantically involved, will she be able to extricate herself from the romantic entanglement and concentrate on her scientific work?
Strengths: I adore travel books like the Lost In books by Callaghan or Love & books by Welch, or books like Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Jouhanneau's Kisses and Croissants, and Henderson's Flirting in Italian. These are popular with my students as well. Middle school romance usually has fewer problems than Young Adult romances, but this was happy enough that my readers will sigh over Ryland and how sweet he is. The two don't really fight; they just don't quite agree on being a couple for a while. Once they do, they have a good time hanging out in Amsterdam, which is a bonus. The problems they face are easily overcome, and everyone is happy at the end. What's not to like. Details about living in Amsterdam were fun to read, and I really enjoyed Sage's work ethic and her plans for her future. Reading this was a great way to vicariously travel!
Weaknesses: As an adult, I know that Dr. Reese was right the first time, and that Sage should concentrate on her career and forget all about Ryland, but that's not very fun or romantic. People will always let you down. A career might let you down, but at least you don't have to take that personally.
What I really think: This was a very fun, middle grade appropriate romance and and even better travelogue of Amsterdam! This reminded me of the fabulous Simon Pulse Romantic comedies. Hot British Boyfriend has been popular with my students, so I'll definitely be looking forward to Boyce's next title.

This book was, unfortunately, not for me. It wasn't bad it was just.... generic. I liked Rylan and his brother well enough, but I thought the main character Sage was a little annoying. Again, it was just not for me, since I understand why she was written the way she was - I just didn't appreciate it. I did love the setting and I've added a few places I want to visit to my travel list thanks to this book. I am still surprised at how ambivalent I am about it since Hot Dutch Daydream reminded me of a YA Ali Hazelwood.

Clean, post-HS/pre-college coupling that gives you all the feels. The chemistry is definitely there! It’s very well-written and the characters have so much substance at times you forget the ages of the characters. I’d love to read a follow-up to see what happens with the others in their lives. Just an all around great book!

I will not be reading this book because I started book one in the series and couldn't get past the first couple of chapters. There was a lot of teen drama that wasn't entirely appropriate as well as a lot of language. Too much for me to continue. The story itself wasn't even very interesting to me. It was a fast DNF for me. And so because of that the second book is a DNF as well. I don't wish to try it because I assume it will be similar to the first book.

Thanks Netgalley for an ARC copy of Hot Dutch Daydream. An amazing and exciting read filled with all the best things about that age and stage of life where everything is beginning. Sage, age 18, a mini adult, workaholic, and Uber responsible heroine, is destined to meet Ryland, the also 18 fun loving artist. An unlikely but complementary match makes them fast friends and more. Read to learn all the yummy details for yourself. If I were a little younger I'd give this book 5/5 buy at this age it still gets all the feel good fun of 4 solid stars.

very very cute! As said in the description, this book is perfect for fans of Jenna Evans Welch! I loved her books years ago and this book was just as good, cute, and fun! I learned things about Sweden, I loved the characters, they were all unique and endearing. this is such a cute quick read! there was a bit of Insta-Love but given that it’s YA and a short read, i’ll excuse it.

Really enjoyed this one! It was cute! I’ve always had a love for European-Contemporary Romances, and “Hot Dutch Daydream” was one of them!

I’m hoping to post on my Instagram once the release gets closer!