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Honey Girl: Roman | Die aufwühlende Geschichte, die hunderttausende TikTok-Userinnen begeistert hat
Morgan Rogers
3.78 AVERAGE
9.06k reviews for:
Honey Girl: Roman | Die aufwühlende Geschichte, die hunderttausende TikTok-Userinnen begeistert hat
Morgan Rogers
3.78 AVERAGE
drink every time Grace is called “Grace Porter” or some variation of _____ Girl (Star Girl, Space Girl, Honey Girl, Dear Girl). drink every time the author mentions the universe, the stars, the galaxy, the cosmos.
emotional
informative
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
emotional
medium-paced
I really really wanted to like this book. I had heard so many good things about it and it was listed as one of the most anticipated books of the year. Lesbian astronomer PhD grad meets cool New York girl in Las Vegas and wakes up married. It has all of the makings for a fun read that I'd finish in a weekend with a silly smile on my face. This took me four months to finish. I think I had to renew my library loan three times before I finally forced myself to finish within a day of my loan expiring a fourth time. While it had all of the ingredients to make a great book and was well written the story and characters just felt flat. The stakes in the plot where too low to hook me and the chemistry between the two leads felt too forced to make me care. I do think the writer has a huge amount of talent and potential and I'm curious to see what she writes next. This was her first book and I have a feeling that her second book is going to be stronger as she finds her groove as a writer.
This is a book that I’m convinced generated hype because for some reason the publishers decided to push it and put a lot of money behind it. The reason for this is because it’s about a black, queer women. The marketing is confusing because it’s billed as YA and a romance, of which it’s neither. The protagonist is 28 and the book is about self-discovery/coming of age not romance. I think the book just didn’t know what it wanted to be and I didn’t connect to anyone in the book. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who will like, mainly contemporary lovers but it wasn’t for me.
emotional
hopeful
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
An extremely sweet book. It has so much love! Grace has such a big family, most of which are LGBT and nonwhite, and it feels so authentic. She has struggles, makes mistakes, but learns to forgive herself and grow, and rethinks what she really wants versus what she does to impress others. It was definitely so heart-warming and very worth the read. I highly recommend it for nonwhite LGBT people in their 20s because this age range can often be tough for us for various reasons, especially if you're Black and a woman in a STEM field/academia. There's not a lot of literature addressing our struggles at this age so this was a welcome addition to my LGBT library. A very good pick for Book of the Month!
EDIT: After reading this book again for a book club, my thoughts on it have changed. I found that it falls into a lot of the pitfalls that authors who come from a fanfiction background fall into: a reliance on tropes without expanding upon them as well as unrealistic situations (mainly regarding finances and simply the realities of adult life) which are glossed over in favor of abiding by those tropes.
There was also the problem of how, yes, the cast is very diverse, but they're not really given a lot of depth. At first I did enjoy the diversity but when I read it again and discussed it with friends, I realized it was very shallow. Something else I found problematic was the way Yuki was often described with stereotypes associated with Japanese women (cherry blossoms, for example).
I then realized just how selfish Grace was.
I did enjoy the book because it was very entertaining. But when I thought about it more and after I read it again, I had a lot of problems with it. I think that is the problem with the current state of "diverse" publishing: we are catered to, in a way, with all kinds of "representation" but it's rather shallow or even riddled with stereotypes. I forgive the author for it because she is a Black woman and these kinds of stories are never available for Black women, much less LGBT Black women. At the same time, is this what we want to settle for? Shouldn't we demand more thoughtful representation rather than throwing it in for the sake of it? This is a general problem with this kind of fiction, which is clearly "chick lit" for LGBT women. "Chick lit" is riddled with issues as well, though it's escapism largely for white women and full of harmful tropes, and it's something that needs to be revamped as well, I think, but that is a whole other discussion.
EDIT: After reading this book again for a book club, my thoughts on it have changed. I found that it falls into a lot of the pitfalls that authors who come from a fanfiction background fall into: a reliance on tropes without expanding upon them as well as unrealistic situations (mainly regarding finances and simply the realities of adult life) which are glossed over in favor of abiding by those tropes.
There was also the problem of how, yes, the cast is very diverse, but they're not really given a lot of depth. At first I did enjoy the diversity but when I read it again and discussed it with friends, I realized it was very shallow. Something else I found problematic was the way Yuki was often described with stereotypes associated with Japanese women (cherry blossoms, for example).
I then realized just how selfish Grace was.
Spoiler
She turns off her phone for a month without updating Agnes and Ximena after she decides to start therapy. That was really shitty of her, especially when you consider that Agnes has borderline personality disorder, fear of abandonment being a big symptom of it, and Grace was aware that she was diagnosed with it. Regardless, it wasn't kind of her at all, especially with so-called close friends. Another thing was how her selfishness was actually addressed by Raj but then he just apologizes for what he said and it's never brought up again.I did enjoy the book because it was very entertaining. But when I thought about it more and after I read it again, I had a lot of problems with it. I think that is the problem with the current state of "diverse" publishing: we are catered to, in a way, with all kinds of "representation" but it's rather shallow or even riddled with stereotypes. I forgive the author for it because she is a Black woman and these kinds of stories are never available for Black women, much less LGBT Black women. At the same time, is this what we want to settle for? Shouldn't we demand more thoughtful representation rather than throwing it in for the sake of it? This is a general problem with this kind of fiction, which is clearly "chick lit" for LGBT women. "Chick lit" is riddled with issues as well, though it's escapism largely for white women and full of harmful tropes, and it's something that needs to be revamped as well, I think, but that is a whole other discussion.
emotional
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:
Complicated
adventurous
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:
Complicated
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-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