A review by effiereads
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

5.0

"Grace takes a breath. It is August. The twenty-ninth year of her life is about to begin, and there is still so much she doesn't know. It is the scariest thing in the world."

Grace Porter is a girl who is lost, depressed, and slowly burning out like a candle until there's not much left. After finally getting her PhD, Grace struggles to find her place in academia as a black, queer, female astronomer and it sends her to Vegas where she drunkenly marries a cute af stranger named Yuki. But to go into this expecting a rom-com is to be sorely disappointed because Honey Girl was so much more than that.

This book was real and vulnerable and so so honest that it broke my heart in places. From our protagonist to the surrounding friends, family, and love interest - everyone has a bit of loneliness and brokenness and less-than-perfectness about them that makes them human and I just loved that. Honey Girl is about self-love, found families, unexpected happiness, and figuring out that scary unknown future.

Thank you so much to Harlequin for the ARC because I will be recommending this book to everyone I know.