2.5

Honey Girl

Morgan Rogers
Book
February
2021

Review:

This was not my favorite book. I had a lot of trouble with the way it kept on changing tenses throughout. Also, I did not really relate to the character or love the love interest. There was not enough suspense in their relationship. They also met at a bar in Vegas then got married while drunk. Just overall a bit of a weird book and not my favorite execution. The cover is gorgeous, though, and some parts were good; just the overall feel was nothing amazing.

Trigger Warnings:
discussion and depictions of mental illness, self-harm (scratching skin, nails digging into skin as anxiety coping mechanism), past suicide attempt by side character, depictions of anti-Blackness and homophobia in the academic and corporate settings, casual alcohol consumption, minor drug use (marijuana), discussions of racism experienced by all characters of color, past limb amputation due to war injury (side character), and past parent death (side character)

Synopsis From Book:

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ 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 doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s 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 she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
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