A review by cvbattum
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

I want to preface this by saying that this book hit me really hard personally. So many of the themes are things I am dealing with myself, and it was hard to keep my mind from wandering to my own situation. I can easily imagine that if you don't relate to the experiences depicted in this book, you might have a very different experience reading it.

With that said, I loved it a lot. It was hard to keep the smile of my face for the first third or so, and when it devolved into darkness and anxiety it was hard to keep myself from crying. I loved the prose and the characters are very likeable. It has a poetic quality to it, which is sometimes a little overdone but I found it worked extremely well in most places. 

I found the romance nice, but a little... off? I mostly just went with it but I couldn't get engrossed in it. It just didn't hit the places I wanted it to, and I think it had more potential than it was given. This fits with a more general trend in this book, where things may or may not happen and the book draws too little attention to those things given how relevant they could be to Grace's character development. For a book that's all about identity and breakdowns and being lost, I think those things are more than a little relevant; way more relevant than the book makes them out to be. This includes a bunch of little discrepancies that are never fully elaborated on.

So while I really liked this book, it didn't end up being quite my favorite. Which is a shame because I think it had all the makings of becoming just that for me. I also don't think this book is for just about everyone, but I think that for the right people, it could be extremely important.