Honey Girl

By: Morgan Rogers

Narrated by: York Whitaker

A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife.

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 parents' 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 constant 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.

©2021 Morgan Rogers (P)2021 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Relatable & Melancholy

The main character Grace has the world on her shoulders when one drunk night she marries a woman she doesn’t even know. The story starts from there. It’s not very grabbing although I had so much hope for it based on the cover. The story drags a bit because she is self questioning and doubt. I thought it was an okay new adult book.

Beautiful!!!!

Beautiful story about being true to one's happiness and not being boxed in my the status quo of family and society. How out of random unexpected experiences, happiness can be derived. Love love

wow

breathtakingly beautiful writing. a celebration of queer love in friendship and romance and much more relatable and real than I expected.

Great Writing

This book was written very well and I enjoyed the dynamics between Grace and her fam-friends. I enjoyed the dynamics between Uki and her fam-friends. I have friends that fight some of the same demons and this book helped me understand them a little better. Thank you for shedding a little light into their world for me. ❤️❣️❤️

Not Quite What I Expected

The book was good for sure, it just wasn’t what I expected. I guess reading the synopsis for the book gave it a more lighthearted, almost rom-com feel and while there were certainly some lighthearted, rom-com moments, that wasn’t the point of this book. It was heavy, much heavier than I expected. It dealt with topics such as self-harm, insecurity, race, sexuality, and so on. I do wish there was a disclaimer about the self-harm. It wasn’t graphic, but I know it can be quite triggering for some people.

The whole book felt REAL. For me, it wasn’t an escape. It was a head first dive into the depths of my own anxieties, my questioning about self-worth, the anger and sadness over our demons, and the frustration of trying to make it in a profession we weren’t meant to be in. Sometimes we need a book that doesn’t allow us to escape. We need a book to remind us we aren’t the only lonely people out there.

Ultimately, a story of self love & growth

Beautiful story of a Black, queer, military raised, astronomy PhD women finding herself, setting boundries, and falling in love. It is as much a story of adult self discovery as it is a goofy gooey love story. Nice easy listen filled with nuggets of knowledge and was nicely voiced by York Whitaker. Loved the cast of mostly Black & brown characters throughout.

Narration AWFUL -Story GREAT

The narrator is truly horrible. She sounds like she just got braces and the number of times you can hear her saliva is simply gross. The story is wonderful. Skip the audio and read this one the old fashioned way.

Must Read for Black Women Coming of Age

This was a beautiful story of a woman realizing that her life should operate by her own narrative she chooses not by anyone else’s direction after it fell apart. She’s learning how to began to manage life as a young black queer adult among career, love, and friends. A must read for black women in their 20’s coming into themselves and discovering their identity. Honey Girl is a reminder to women to find and listen to your own voice and work through life curve balls as they come. It is very relatable, emotional, and the coming of age story we needed. What a great story for Rogers’ debut novel, can not wait to read more from this author!

AMAZING

I simply adored this book, it made me feel like I was in a golden sun filled room, yet at the same time led me to tackle some of my own self destructive tendencies. This book taught me how I can have the best and how that doesn’t always mean the hardest.

Narrator made it hard to get into

I could not finish this book because the narrator was very cold and choppy. It was distracting from the story and sadly I could not finish it.