Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers | Book Review

 


Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Goodreads Description:
"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’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. 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.

In New York, she’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But 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."


Have you ever read a book that left you feeling raw and exposed but also comforted and seen? That's how I felt after finishing Honey Girl.

I first heard about this book in 2020 and fell in love with the premise. We need more adult sapphic books in the world and drunk married in Vegas is such a fun trope! I had it on hold at the library and it took two months to get processed out so I could read it but the wait was worth it and more.

At the heart of this story is love. Love for yourself, love for the people that prop you up, love for your life and the things that make you happy. I think we all have a hard time with love. The media makes a spectacle out of it with reality shows that run the gamut and self-love content has become trendy but it rarely hits the mark. This book hits the mark.

Rogers writes about the dark crevices inside us that hold all our darkest thoughts and feelings and how healthy it is to excavate them. She writes carefully and lyrically about the loneliness we all feel, even when surrounded by the people that love us. They write about finding yourself in a universe that is so big and moving so fast. 

And while it's a book that has universal appeal, she also writes as a Black person about the Black experience in the workplace, of feeling like you have to be three times as good as everyone else, work three times harder than everyone else, to succeed and how sometimes even that isn't enough for the people who look down on you. They write about the struggle of Black people in academia and the systemic racism that is ingrained in it. She does with love for her fellows that you can feel through the page. 

It's also a love letter to queer people and queer love, both the platonic and romantic kind. There is so much family in this book and the amazing thing is that a lot of it is chosen family, the kind you surround yourself with as a queer kid who finds acceptance and affection in the people who choose you and love you for everything that you are. 

The romance in this book is beautiful because it is two imperfect people making life work for them. They are still growing and changing as people and they choose each other to grow and change with. 

If it isn't already clear, I gave this book five out of five stars. I would recommend this to people who, like me, needed reminding that we aren't the darkest parts of ourselves. To girls who think they don't deserve love but deserve it all the same. For people who are scared that the world can't handle what they're made of. 

Read Honey Girl and remember, you are loved.

x Sasha












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