Blog Tour – Review: “Honey Girl” by Morgan Rogers
About The Book
HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers is a stunning #ownvoices debut, a charming, lyrical, and introspective romantic coming-of-age story about Grace Porter – millennial, Black woman, astronomy Ph.D. – who wakes up after a wild night in Vegas married to a woman she doesn’t know.
Strait-laced and structured all her life, Porter now faces life without a plan for the first time ever. Between her disappointed military father, the competitive job market, and a consuming sense of aimlessness, finding and falling in love with her wife across the country seems to be the only right answer. But Porter’s problems are just as big in Brooklyn as they are anywhere else, and she realizes she’s going to have to face adulthood whether she’s ready or not.
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Book Review
Honey Girl follows the story of Grace,a woman who has just gotten her PhD in the Astronomy field. Everything is going according to plan until a drunken Las Vegas wedding. After the wedding Grace’s world is flipped upside down and she starts a relationship with the stranger she’s married to. She decides to fly to the East Coast to meet her wife, navigate their feelings, and decide what’s the next step that she can take in her career. In Brooklyn, the two immediately feel a deep connection with each other, and Grace realizes that she needs to tackle adulthood face on.
If you know my reading tastes I love coming-of-age and self-discovery stories. Honey Girl is one of those. Its a story about falling in love and finding yourself. Grace has been working so hard to get her Astronomy degree and now she’s unsure of what to do since her whole life has been mapped out for her till this point. Her experience of burn out is relatable to its audience as it’s something that people experience at somepoint in their life. She has to take a break and ultimately figure out what she wants in life and not what someone else wants for her.
Grace is a kind and intelligent woman who is a bit unsure of herself. I really admired her tenacity of defeating the odds in her field as she discusses being of Queer and Black in the STEM. Faced at a crossroad in her life she struggles not to feel alone even though she’s surrounded by so many people that care about her. She slowly starts to realize the barriers she’s built up all these years and tries to open up to rely on others. One of my favorite parts about this book is Grace’s friends with their lively personalities and how we see them step up as a strong support system for her. The small intimate conversations with her friends, family, and Yuki (her wife) provided so many candid and tender moments thoroughout the novel.
While this novel is a mainly self-discovery story laced with romance. It’s most importantly about the message that “it’s okay not to be okay”. I reallyappreciated the open discussions and representation of mental health in the book too. This is a fantastic debut novel from Rogers! I hope to read more of her books in the future.
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About The Author
Morgan Rogers is a queer black millennial. She writes books for queer girls that are looking for their place in the world. She lives in Maryland and has a Shih Tzu named Nico and a cat named Grace that she would love to write into a story one day. HONEY GIRL is her debut novel.
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Enjoyed the review. This book is on my TBR.