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haileyldavidson 's review for:
Honey Girl
by Morgan Rogers
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.