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Honey Girl: Roman | Die aufwühlende Geschichte, die hunderttausende TikTok-Userinnen begeistert hat

Morgan Rogers

3.78 AVERAGE

dearreaders's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

louvely's review against another edition

3.75

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rainbowbrarian's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

Friends, I LOVED THIS. My wife told me to read it back in 2021 and I shoulda listened! Because it’s delightful. Overachiever, Grace Porter, has been driving herself with an unrelenting focus for the past 11 years to get her PhD in astronomy. As a black queer woman in STEM, she’s having to work twice as hard as any of her white colleagues to try to prove herself the best. She can’t settle for anything less (thanks to a seriously tough relationship with military dad).

When she spends a single weekend in Vegas with her friends and wakes up to find herself married to Yuki, a rose cheeked girl she can only hazily remember, she finds herself floundering and lost for the first time since she can remember. With nothing left of her new wife aside from a hastily written note, a key, a photo, and a wedding ring, she finds herself clinging to the beautiful memory of the happiness she felt with this dream girl. But what happens when you try to merge fantasy with reality? Can The Plan survive these detours?

Favorite Parts - The Friends - OMG, folks, the friends of both of Yuki and Grace are EVERYTHING. I love how well embodied they are, they are wonderful and diverse and funny, and I want more of them. I also love that Yuki has a radio show about cryptids and other lonely creatures. The therapy - seriously, many of the characters struggle with serious, real mental health challenges, and these are not done lightly. A big plot point involves Grace finally reaching out to a therapist and I found that journey very realistic and was awesome about normalizing the process and not sugar coating it.

Read This If You - need a queer Asian manic pixie dream girl, have ever struggled with feeling like you don’t know what you’re doing with your life, have ever wanted a wacky posse of feral queer friends.

Content Warnings

alida's review against another edition

2.0

I really wanted to like this book. The plot was boring! I waited for half the book before you even meet the wife. The characters were one-dimensional and I was just bored.

haileyldavidson's review against another edition

2.0

Now, this wasn't a bad book by any means. I just didn't find it all that tuned to my tastes, which is fair. I could totally see this being exactly my thing if it was just a few notches toned down. So many things about this book were great! I found it initially on a list of books to read if you loved Fleabag- and looking back that direct comparison might have been its downfall. The diversity, the found family element, the main character and the idea of still finding yourself as an adult - these were all awesome. But I just couldn't get past some elements that made me cringe. It was pretentious, for starters. Usually I don't mind pretentious, in fact I love it. There was just too much, I couldn't tell if the repeated calling one another by their full names was ironic, or if the drawn-out dramatic prose about being lonely creatures in the dark was meant to be tongue in cheek, or if the millennial dialogue was satirical. I liked the main character...until page 50 when her inner dialogue was too ostentatious for me and I felt my eyes roll. It wasn't awful- but the level of flashy self-importance felt more fitting for a Dark Academia story rather than what I assumed was meant to be a heartwarmingly humorous coming-of-age tale.