Book Review: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

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Title: Honey Girl

Author: Morgan Rogers

Sub-genre: Contemporary

Trope(s): married in Vegas

So looking back, I really wish I would have waited to read this one until after I turned in my latest round of edits, because nothing makes me doubt myself more than reading a fantastic book! (That’s totally on me and nothing but a compliment to the writer!)

Grace Porter does everything right. The daughter of a military colonel (she and everyone else literally call him Colonel), Grace has been taught to always push herself and never accept anything less than the best. Which is why she has spent all of her adult years so far working toward her PhD in astronomy. Which she gets, because nothing less will do. But when she has trouble finding a job (thanks mostly to racism and also partly to sexism), she flounders. And then Grace decides to escape. Luckily, thanks to a drunken night in Vegas, she has the perfect place to escape to: her wife’s apartment in New York. Yeah, perfect Grace Porter made one imperfect mistake, but it turns out to be a blessing in disguise. Yuki and her roommates welcome Grace with open arms, and she spends the summer in New York falling love and coming just short of finding herself. She needs another trip to Florida, to see her somewhat flighty and runaway mother, before she can really do that. Eventually Grace realizes that running away is never going to be the solution to her problems, and she manages to make amends with everyone in her life, including Yuki. And they live happily ever after.

Okay, so first and foremost, this book is beautifully written. And this next statement might sound like a slight against romance, which it absolutely is not because you know how much I would die for my romance community. But I don’t always expect my romances to feel lyrical and poetic, and this one absolutely did. As a writer, it was magical to see how the words danced together across the page (<—- my lame attempt at poetic). I found myself going back and rereading particular phrases because they were just so stunning. Add to that a cast of entirely adorable and relatable characters, a fierce found family, and a compelling love story and the book as a whole just blew me away. Seriously, I wanna write like that when I grow up.

Overall Rating: 5 stars