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Honey Girl: Roman | Die aufwühlende Geschichte, die hunderttausende TikTok-Userinnen begeistert hat
Morgan Rogers
3.78 AVERAGE
9.02k reviews for:
Honey Girl: Roman | Die aufwühlende Geschichte, die hunderttausende TikTok-Userinnen begeistert hat
Morgan Rogers
3.78 AVERAGE
4.6 stars. every time i read this book, i cried my eyes out. (check out my book blog?)
reading this story was an intimate experience for me, to the point where i don't want to delve into it because i'd just like for you to have that tailored experience for yourself. this book was a soothing balm on my soul, yet it stared earnestly into my eyes, as if asking, "how are you really doing? do you know what you're doing with your life? are you okay? do you know how much you are loved?" so yeah. mental breakdowns here, mental breakdowns there, but this book was gently cradling me through it, so i wasn't complaining. it was actually kinda nice.
if you haven't read the synopsis, grace porter is a black, lesbian doctor who just got her phd in astronomy (we love a star gal!) and she's very conscientious — always on time, has a schedule down, is a perfectionist — and her eyes on the stars, on success. but somewhere along the line, she left her heart behind and that's mainly what this book is about. also, she gets drunk married to a feral aquarius who has her own nighttime talk show discussing monsters and myths (yuki has my whole heart <3 i love feral asian womxn). you experience grace's raw heart, her journey into exploring the cracks and crevices and where she went wrong in denying herself that space to breathe and rest. don't go into this book with a closed heart — there's a lot of sentimentality and raw emotion in this book that may not be for everybody. but if you're a sensitive person like i am, then maybe you need this book in your life.
parts of myself resonated with grace, strikingly clear and brutal in its deliverance of how perfectionism is just a sharp hammer to one's mental health. but it doesn't just talk about that. this book discusses the exhausting lengths womxn of color (particularly, black womxn of color that identify within the lgbtqia+ community) have to go through just to be seen, to be heard. as a south east asian that identifies within that same community, it struck a deep chord within me. it makes me wonder if white readers saw this detail and what they thought of it. because every draining feeling, every exhausting thought grace puts into this book is thoroughly valid. it really does fucking suck when the system is stacked against you.
before i end this off, i just want to thank morgan rogers for writing this. without this book, i never would've had the courage to approach my closest friends with my honest, vulnerable thoughts (a big step for me <3). through watching grace's journey, she reminded me that vulnerability is a strength — and i sincerely hope i keep that lesson tucked into my heart. and if i ever do forget, i know i'll always honey girl to go back to!
reading this story was an intimate experience for me, to the point where i don't want to delve into it because i'd just like for you to have that tailored experience for yourself. this book was a soothing balm on my soul, yet it stared earnestly into my eyes, as if asking, "how are you really doing? do you know what you're doing with your life? are you okay? do you know how much you are loved?" so yeah. mental breakdowns here, mental breakdowns there, but this book was gently cradling me through it, so i wasn't complaining. it was actually kinda nice.
It seems so absurd, but when you've known people so long, you know how to love them, and you know how to hurt them. You know all the soft spots where your claws dig in and press.
if you haven't read the synopsis, grace porter is a black, lesbian doctor who just got her phd in astronomy (we love a star gal!) and she's very conscientious — always on time, has a schedule down, is a perfectionist — and her eyes on the stars, on success. but somewhere along the line, she left her heart behind and that's mainly what this book is about. also, she gets drunk married to a feral aquarius who has her own nighttime talk show discussing monsters and myths (yuki has my whole heart <3 i love feral asian womxn). you experience grace's raw heart, her journey into exploring the cracks and crevices and where she went wrong in denying herself that space to breathe and rest. don't go into this book with a closed heart — there's a lot of sentimentality and raw emotion in this book that may not be for everybody. but if you're a sensitive person like i am, then maybe you need this book in your life.
"My battery is low," she confesses, and the hurt of it unveils like a thorned flower. "And it's getting so dark."
parts of myself resonated with grace, strikingly clear and brutal in its deliverance of how perfectionism is just a sharp hammer to one's mental health. but it doesn't just talk about that. this book discusses the exhausting lengths womxn of color (particularly, black womxn of color that identify within the lgbtqia+ community) have to go through just to be seen, to be heard. as a south east asian that identifies within that same community, it struck a deep chord within me. it makes me wonder if white readers saw this detail and what they thought of it. because every draining feeling, every exhausting thought grace puts into this book is thoroughly valid. it really does fucking suck when the system is stacked against you.
before i end this off, i just want to thank morgan rogers for writing this. without this book, i never would've had the courage to approach my closest friends with my honest, vulnerable thoughts (a big step for me <3). through watching grace's journey, she reminded me that vulnerability is a strength — and i sincerely hope i keep that lesson tucked into my heart. and if i ever do forget, i know i'll always honey girl to go back to!
truly? what can i say about this book. only that i loved it and it's one of those books that stuck its hand in my soul and did not care as it ripped my heart out but also made me whole again.
morgan rogers is magnificent, grace is magnificent, her love story with yuki is magnificent, ximena, agnes, sani, dhorian, raj, meera, and fletcher are all magnificent. this story flows beautifully but it also feels so real and raw and tender. grace's story is incredibly real, but it works so well.
in HONEY GIRL by morgan rogers, grace porter has her whole life planned out. she's just received her doctorate in astronomy and the next step in her plan is to continue to be the best. but it all derails when one night in vegas she drunkenly gets married to her rosebud girl in vegas, is deemed her honey girl. and as she tries to get back on track, she goes to new york, to try and learn about herself and her new wife. but life is still not so simple.
i can't pretend that i will ever fully understand every aspect of grace's story, but the beauty of it is that it still managed to grab me, and hold me, and make me look inside. i cannot even express how much i love it and how much i recommend this to anyone. HONEY GIRL let's you escape into a world that is not your own but also holds you tight, makes you think. ultimately, it gives you hope. because grace's story isn't perfect, but no one's is perfect, and this book tells you that it doesn't have to be. this book says that you can be imperfect, that you can be outside of what society deems acceptable, and that you don't have to kill yourself to fit into that book. you don't have to be grace, but you're allowed to be kissed by the sun.
ultimately, my thoughts can be summed up that i love this book, and it's made me think about myself in ways that i'm grateful for. and i couldn't recommend that everyone read it enough.
morgan rogers is magnificent, grace is magnificent, her love story with yuki is magnificent, ximena, agnes, sani, dhorian, raj, meera, and fletcher are all magnificent. this story flows beautifully but it also feels so real and raw and tender. grace's story is incredibly real, but it works so well.
in HONEY GIRL by morgan rogers, grace porter has her whole life planned out. she's just received her doctorate in astronomy and the next step in her plan is to continue to be the best. but it all derails when one night in vegas she drunkenly gets married to her rosebud girl in vegas, is deemed her honey girl. and as she tries to get back on track, she goes to new york, to try and learn about herself and her new wife. but life is still not so simple.
i can't pretend that i will ever fully understand every aspect of grace's story, but the beauty of it is that it still managed to grab me, and hold me, and make me look inside. i cannot even express how much i love it and how much i recommend this to anyone. HONEY GIRL let's you escape into a world that is not your own but also holds you tight, makes you think. ultimately, it gives you hope. because grace's story isn't perfect, but no one's is perfect, and this book tells you that it doesn't have to be. this book says that you can be imperfect, that you can be outside of what society deems acceptable, and that you don't have to kill yourself to fit into that book. you don't have to be grace, but you're allowed to be kissed by the sun.
ultimately, my thoughts can be summed up that i love this book, and it's made me think about myself in ways that i'm grateful for. and i couldn't recommend that everyone read it enough.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 stars? I can’t decide if this is 3 or 4 stars for me. I really like the characters and the relationships going on between them. But the marriage plot just never quite clicked with me; it seemed like the characters just quickly accepted that this was their new reality and there wasn’t much tension against fighting it?? Like if I woke up in Vegas and realize I had drunkenly married a stranger the night before, I don’t think my first instinct would be to just stay with that person?? But maybe that’s just me lol. The book is gorgeously written, I saw someone say it reads like a Lorde song and that’s very accurate.
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
The ending hit me so hard. I felt so seen by this book. The last 2 hours of the audiobook I was getting goosebumps. Loved it!
Oof okay....first one star of the year. Take this review with a grain of salt however, because I realize I am not the intended audience for this book. BUT I just had so many issues with so many of the things done here.
1. Overly flowery prose. The writing was trying so hard to be deep but it never actually succeeded, it just ended up being too many words.
2. Overly romantic descriptions of space and astronomy. This is one of my main issues. This woman supposedly has a PhD in astronomy, but she talks about space as if she doesn't actually understand any of it and in this overly simplistic, romanticized way that sounded more like the way an astrology girl would talk about it. Look, I work in the space industry, and no one talks about space like that. Also...if she's supposed to know SO MUCH about astronomy....show me? Have her give some actual interesting facts and not just some very basic facts that literally everyone knows. The most interesting thing about space that is covered in this book is a story about a Mars rover, which is not something that you study in astronomy grad school. If you're going to make this girl's ENTIRE personality space, you gotta flesh it out more and make me believe that she actually got a PhD in this. Especially since a big plot point was "I'm so good at astronomy but no one will hire me!" but yet, we see no evidence of her being good or bad or mediocre or anything. Show us a flashback from grad school when she solved an interesting problem. Show us her taking on more responsibility than needed for her degree. Show us her struggling and learning from mistakes. It's not that I don't believe Grace was a good astronomer, I'm sure she was, but I just can't get over the fact that we don't ever SEE it. This book struggles with the assumption that having a PhD makes you smart. It really doesn't. That doesn't mean it isn't an important accomplishment, but I just needed more to show me that Grace really was as bright in this field as everyone claimed she was.
3. Despite the premise of this book being about how Grace's lack of privilege affected her career, Grace was very...privileged. She had extremely wealthy parents who were able to finance her advanced education, let her live with them until her late 20's, give her money randomly, and she was in a position where she could just move to New York on a whim without a job? This girl has so much privilege that she doesn't realize, especially compared to a character like Yuki who has so little. I really preferred Yuki as a character because she had so much more perspective.
4. Grace is a bad friend. Look, I understand the mental health struggles she was going through, and I tried to take that into account. But Grace is the center of her own universe, and always centers herself and her own problems before realizing that many of her friends truly have it worse off than she does. That doesn't make Grace's struggles unimportant, but I couldn't forgive Grace for how she shrugged off Yuki's own issues (which were remarkable similar to her own! Yuki also was having trouble finding a job in the field she got her degree in. Yuki also suffered from racism and homophobia!)
So overall, not the book for me. I understand a lot of people see themself in this book and can relate to Grace, but I just did not. The only good thing was that I felt the relationship between Yuki and Grace was cute and I thought they were good together. BUT I thought Grace treated Yuki poorly so in the end, even that couldn't save this book.
1. Overly flowery prose. The writing was trying so hard to be deep but it never actually succeeded, it just ended up being too many words.
2. Overly romantic descriptions of space and astronomy. This is one of my main issues. This woman supposedly has a PhD in astronomy, but she talks about space as if she doesn't actually understand any of it and in this overly simplistic, romanticized way that sounded more like the way an astrology girl would talk about it. Look, I work in the space industry, and no one talks about space like that. Also...if she's supposed to know SO MUCH about astronomy....show me? Have her give some actual interesting facts and not just some very basic facts that literally everyone knows. The most interesting thing about space that is covered in this book is a story about a Mars rover, which is not something that you study in astronomy grad school. If you're going to make this girl's ENTIRE personality space, you gotta flesh it out more and make me believe that she actually got a PhD in this. Especially since a big plot point was "I'm so good at astronomy but no one will hire me!" but yet, we see no evidence of her being good or bad or mediocre or anything. Show us a flashback from grad school when she solved an interesting problem. Show us her taking on more responsibility than needed for her degree. Show us her struggling and learning from mistakes. It's not that I don't believe Grace was a good astronomer, I'm sure she was, but I just can't get over the fact that we don't ever SEE it. This book struggles with the assumption that having a PhD makes you smart. It really doesn't. That doesn't mean it isn't an important accomplishment, but I just needed more to show me that Grace really was as bright in this field as everyone claimed she was.
3. Despite the premise of this book being about how Grace's lack of privilege affected her career, Grace was very...privileged. She had extremely wealthy parents who were able to finance her advanced education, let her live with them until her late 20's, give her money randomly, and she was in a position where she could just move to New York on a whim without a job? This girl has so much privilege that she doesn't realize, especially compared to a character like Yuki who has so little. I really preferred Yuki as a character because she had so much more perspective.
4. Grace is a bad friend. Look, I understand the mental health struggles she was going through, and I tried to take that into account. But Grace is the center of her own universe, and always centers herself and her own problems before realizing that many of her friends truly have it worse off than she does. That doesn't make Grace's struggles unimportant, but I couldn't forgive Grace for how she shrugged off Yuki's own issues (which were remarkable similar to her own! Yuki also was having trouble finding a job in the field she got her degree in. Yuki also suffered from racism and homophobia!)
So overall, not the book for me. I understand a lot of people see themself in this book and can relate to Grace, but I just did not. The only good thing was that I felt the relationship between Yuki and Grace was cute and I thought they were good together. BUT I thought Grace treated Yuki poorly so in the end, even that couldn't save this book.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes