Honey Girl
Honey Girl
Honey Girl
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Honey Girl
Honey Girl
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Average rating4
"With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. 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, 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."--Publisher's description.
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This book is a love letter to people with gifted kid burnout.
I can't speak to Porter's struggles with being a person of color, but the depiction of mental illness in this book was raw and very relatable. Porter's urge to just keep going and going and being better than everyone because otherwise, you might as well not be worth ANYTHING is really prevalent to me. I reached my burnout a lot earlier than Porter did and maybe not as viciously as she did, but she still said and felt a lot of things that resonated with me.
The found family in this book is truly heartwarming. The Portland crew and the New York crew are all so very dear to me and I loved the scenes when they were all just there for each other. You can truly see how all these people just love each other so much, even when it's hard.
And Porter and Yuki were of course, adorable, even though this book very much focuses on Porter's struggles with mental illness and burnout rather than their romance, but it was a very cute bonus. The story could've stood on its own without Yuki's storyline being a part of it, but I like that it's there.
The only reason I didn't rate this higher is because the writing style wasn't for me. It wasn't BAD per se and I bet a lot of people will and do enjoy this poetic, flowery descriptive writing with beautiful comparisons every couple sentences, but it just didn't hit for me.
Overall, though, a very solid read!
