A fantastical story that tackles hard topics! 

Thank you to Rob Cameron for sending me a copy of your book in exchange for an honest review.

Daydreamer is about a sweet, misunderstood, Black boy named Charles growing up in New York in 1986. Charles seems to have undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia. He lives with his mom, a single parent who has a demanding work schedule at a local hospital. As the title implies, Charles has an active imagination and often gets in trouble for it. During this time, crack cocaine is devastating many people in the city and Charles's community becomes increasingly dangerous.

As Cameron states in his message at the beginning of Daydreamer, this novel depicts addiction, violence, verbal and physical abuse if a child, and references to death. Since there are a lot of heavy themes throughout this story, we see that Charles frequently escapes into his fantasy world which makes complete sense to me. I think that Cameron did a great job with approaching this material through a child's eyes! 

It took me a while to get through this book for a few different reasons, one of them being that I'm easily distracted and that gets worse when I'm in my feelings! So if you have ADHD, like me, I recommend you listen and read the physical copy together.