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Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

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nataliaputnam's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful 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

4.0

madi_brown's review against another edition

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5.0

I kid you not this book made me cry myself to sleep on a number of occasions while reading this. It starts off with the main character getting married in Las Vegas, but the main focus of the book was on how she has just gotten her PhD in astronomy. She's been working herself to the brink of insanity trying to prove to her father and her professors that she has what it takes to succeed in this profession. Her father had always put so much pressure on her to succeed and now that she has her degree she wants a break. She feels so much pressure to always be the best and always be pushing herself that she starts to have break downs because she's struggling to find good jobs due to the fact that she's a queer black woman(or that she's walking out of job interviews). She ends up going across the country to stay with her wife for the summer and take a break from her profession. She's so happy with her wife, but the second that she sees she might have another chance at a job she leaves her wife behind. However, she goes to Florida to stay with her mother instead and figure some things out for herself, and get some much needed therapy. After she starts to try to deal her need to be perfect and she confronts all the people she's run away from over the course of the book.
Grace is living through my greatest fear of having your life planned out and finding that you've spent over a decade working for your goals only to find that your plan isn't going to be so easy. She's spent so much time working and trying to be the best that she doesn't know how to take care of herself. This book was so heavy for me to read because Grace has all these people around her that care about her but she still feels lonely and once she starts to get too overwhelmed by life she runs away. I loved how this book talked about how it's ok to need a break or know that you don't have to be at your best to still be good enough.
I think it's also a very sweet book. Reading about Grace and Yuki's relationship made me smile so much. In one chapter Grace would be having a whole serious conversation with her father about her future, but in the next she would be having these hearwarming moments with her wife. Some things did confuse me though. Amost every other day at least one person would be drinking alcohol. When she goes to live with Yuki and her roomates they will sometimes be drinking the whole day basically. Even her mother will casually be always with a drink in her hand, but it's just talked about like it's nothing. The only other think they drink is water, but that's on rare occasions. It's like every character in this book is on the verge of being an alcoholic, but it's totally normal. I do think that author has an obssession with champagne though.
As a whole I loved this book and I think everyone should read it. I don't think I will be able to read this until I have finished college though. Every conversation made me want to sob on the floor.

lyrasullyvan's review

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emotional reflective sad 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

4.75

miniibooks's review against another edition

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4.0

3.5/5

khandle3's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

pretty writing, covers important topics as they relate go academia. could have gone without the frequent repetition of full names … the book was too short for that.

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