Honey Girl

By: Morgan Rogers

Narrated by: York Whitaker

Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others!

A LibraryReads Pick

“HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it.”
— Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal

When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first.

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.

This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parent’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows.

In New York, she’s able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.

Not Quite What I Expected

The book was good for sure, it just wasn’t what I expected. I guess reading the synopsis for the book gave it a more lighthearted, almost rom-com feel and while there were certainly some lighthearted, rom-com moments, that wasn’t the point of this book. It was heavy, much heavier than I expected. It dealt with topics such as self-harm, insecurity, race, sexuality, and so on. I do wish there was a disclaimer about the self-harm. It wasn’t graphic, but I know it can be quite triggering for some people.

The whole book felt REAL. For me, it wasn’t an escape. It was a head first dive into the depths of my own anxieties, my questioning about self-worth, the anger and sadness over our demons, and the frustration of trying to make it in a profession we weren’t meant to be in. Sometimes we need a book that doesn’t allow us to escape. We need a book to remind us we aren’t the only lonely people out there.

Ultimately, a story of self love & growth

Beautiful story of a Black, queer, military raised, astronomy PhD women finding herself, setting boundries, and falling in love. It is as much a story of adult self discovery as it is a goofy gooey love story. Nice easy listen filled with nuggets of knowledge and was nicely voiced by York Whitaker. Loved the cast of mostly Black & brown characters throughout.

Narration AWFUL -Story GREAT

The narrator is truly horrible. She sounds like she just got braces and the number of times you can hear her saliva is simply gross. The story is wonderful. Skip the audio and read this one the old fashioned way.

it's never too late to find you

An awakening of some sort. Grace Porter an Blasian beauty, grew up with mom and dad kinda. Dad, Colonel, hence the name was in the Military and was wounded. His relationship with his daughter was more of a work relationship. He even called his daughter by her last name instead of Grace or daughter. Colonel and her mother divorced and she stayed with her mother, alike majority of divorces the children act out. Grace started getting into trouble so her father came and hot her and her life changed dramatically afterwards. She started living life according to his standards, "The Porter Way, which brought on her midlife crisis. Although at the age of 28 she became a Doctor, she felt empty and with a life unfulfilled. Is Grace like her mother who travels the world in search oc herself and leace or more like her father. She wakes up from a night in Vegas married, to another woman which starts the unpeeling of awakening of Grace. #mentalhealthawareness #gofindyourself #dowhatmakesyouhappy #Book16of2021 #bookworm #whatsnext

Birthday Gift

My cousin's had gotten me this book for my 27th birthday, and I honestly didn't think much of it when I first looked at it. When I tell you this book had me wrecked, it had me wrecked, ten out of ten recommend. It is romantic and thought provoking in the most introspective ways. I'm honestly too afraid to give too much away. If your battery is low and it's getting dark or if you consider yourself a lonely creature, this is the book for you. It filled me with such validation and joy and reawoke my romantic side. Thank you Morgan Rogers and all involved in this work! Thank you for singing this song.