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pn_hinton 's review for:
Honey Girl
by Morgan Rogers
I'm glad I went into this knowing that it wasn't an actual romance and was more a literary fiction with a romantic element. It gave me a much more realistic expectation of it. And while I wouldn't say I was blown away by it, I didn't face the disappointment other readers did going in expecting a typical romance.
In that regard it was phenomenal and had everything you would want in a literary fiction. It is very much something that could be dissected in a college class but would also be good for a book club pick. There's a lot that you can unpack here and, while it's not without its flaws, it's still a good story.
THE GOOD:
--The writing flowed relatively well. There were a few scenes where it seemed too wordy but it didn't ever fall into the trap of being too pretentious like others in the genre do.
--All the characters were amazingly well developed. Even the ones that we didn't focus on for long periods of time we well fleshed out. I would love to revisit them all at one point with Grace and Yuki as the background characters.
--Hinted at the very real stigma of mental health in the Black community insomuch that it is ignored even when people needed it.
--It had a HFN. This is rare for literary fiction so I enjoyed that.
THE BAD:
-- My gods woman you have a freaking doctorate have you really never heard of an annulment?
--It took way too long to meet up with Yuki.
--The amount of people who called this grown ass woman Porter got tedious. Like even her near and dears did. The only one who consistently called her Grace was Yuki (and even then it was normally Grace Porter). Still though...she has a first name for the love of cheese call her by her first name.
--I wanted to know more about 'bad Grace'. It seemed thrown in at the last minute and, while it made sense, it still seemed to be a last minute plot twist.
Overall, I would recommend this, with the strong warning that romance is, at best, a secondary plot. It is mainly about Grace's self discovery and that moment that most of us go through where we realize that our best laid plans may not work out the way we planned.
In that regard it was phenomenal and had everything you would want in a literary fiction. It is very much something that could be dissected in a college class but would also be good for a book club pick. There's a lot that you can unpack here and, while it's not without its flaws, it's still a good story.
THE GOOD:
--The writing flowed relatively well. There were a few scenes where it seemed too wordy but it didn't ever fall into the trap of being too pretentious like others in the genre do.
--All the characters were amazingly well developed. Even the ones that we didn't focus on for long periods of time we well fleshed out. I would love to revisit them all at one point with Grace and Yuki as the background characters.
--Hinted at the very real stigma of mental health in the Black community insomuch that it is ignored even when people needed it.
--It had a HFN. This is rare for literary fiction so I enjoyed that.
THE BAD:
-- My gods woman you have a freaking doctorate have you really never heard of an annulment?
--It took way too long to meet up with Yuki.
--The amount of people who called this grown ass woman Porter got tedious. Like even her near and dears did. The only one who consistently called her Grace was Yuki (and even then it was normally Grace Porter). Still though...she has a first name for the love of cheese call her by her first name.
--I wanted to know more about 'bad Grace'. It seemed thrown in at the last minute and, while it made sense, it still seemed to be a last minute plot twist.
Overall, I would recommend this, with the strong warning that romance is, at best, a secondary plot. It is mainly about Grace's self discovery and that moment that most of us go through where we realize that our best laid plans may not work out the way we planned.