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.
© 2021 Harlequin Audio (Ljudbok): 9781488210754
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 februari 2021
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.
© 2021 Harlequin Audio (Ljudbok): 9781488210754
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 februari 2021
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Frida
6 aug. 2022
Grunda karaktärer, extremt upprepande språk och ett evigt tjatande om universum och "lonely creatures". Totalt orealistisk dialog.
Denise
21 juni 2021
Stor på känslor, stor på vänskap.
Jenny
20 apr. 2021
There's so much more to this than I first though and I really enjoyed it.
Rebecka
21 sep. 2022
There were things I liked less and things I liked more. Grace trying to find herself when she's suffered with perfectionism and everyday racism, everyday sexism, everyday queerphobia, it's strong and evocative and a gentle "me too" toward any reader who can relate, which many do. The analogies are pretty and often work well with the purple prose--but here's where my problems begin, with the style and prose. The analogies and metaphors were repeated all the time until they lost their initial charm (if I hear "lonely creature" or "siren" again I'll scream), the prose itself repetitious (paraphrased "my mother said I was favored by the sun, but I don't feel favored by the sun"--maybe not that clunky but close) and the dialogue is written like slam poetry and you need to suspend your disbelief a lot there. Also, having one's full name as a pet name is so clunky and weird, at least when listening to the audiobook.
Elin
25 jan. 2022
En av de bästa WLW böckerna jag läst 🥰
Helena
1 sep. 2021
Vänskap, kärlek 🥰. Så mycket mer än jag förväntade mig.
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