martharabura 's review for:

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

2.0

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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.