A review by sapphicreaderlucy
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense 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

This book was a true pleasure to read. It touched on so many great topics like mental health (specifically for Black people in STEM fields), burnout, and trying to meet parent's expectations. I went into this expecting a love story, which I definitely got. However this book was more a story about a women dealing with a mental health crisis and burnout. I loved the story however even though it didn't have as much romance as I expected, and felt the insight to her experience as a Black woman in STEM was super cool to read about. I also loved the different settings in this book, the orange groves were just so beautiful to read about and I loved the scenes where she described what the grove was like. I also really enjoyed the lesbian representation in this book and thought it was done really really well. Yuki and Grace's relationship seemed realistic. However, something that was part of why I knocked it a star was that the constant metaphors about space and lost creatures and sirens seemed a little bit too many for my taste. It just felt a little bit too corny for me to buy into completely. I also wish we got more build up of Yuki and Grace. It seemed like the story was a slow burn then complete love all at once. I wish we had more date scenes like the one in the astronomy museum, but I also understand that there was a lot of other plot stuff going on in the book that filled that space. This book was inspiring by the end and I would totally recommend it to anyone who is looking to educate themselves about a queer Black woman struggling with mental health. 
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