đ¸ Title: Honey Girl
đ¸ Author: Morgan Rogers
đ¸ Release Date: February 23rd, 2021
đ¸ Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBT, Romance
đ¸ A non-major spoilers review.
âYou are made up of stars and the black glittering universe.â
–Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl
Goodreads summary:
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girlsâ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesnât knowâŚuntil she does exactly that.
This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military fatherâs plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesnât feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her fatherâs expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows.
When reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what sheâs been running from all alongâthe fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
My review:
Whew. Honey Girl took me a while to finish. I could not get into it and I could not stay in it, but even at the end, it felt incomplete (even as I wished it were over already). I’m sad because this was one of my most anticipated reads by Black authors this year, too.
I felt gypped by the fact that the description said Grace would be in New York with you know who when in reality she doesnât end up there until halfway through the book. It takes us so long to get there that I wasnât sure what the point was with everything and everyone else. They seemed like unnecessary characters who I wanted to have been explored more but werenât.
Things feel too magical, too fairytale at times mixed in with real-world problems and it left me with a sour taste overall.
