It’s not going perfectly, like it was supposed to after her eleven years of working and striving and being better than the best, so she’s not in a good space. Grace has just finished her PhD in astronomy and is hunting for jobs. Rather, Grace awakens in a Vegas hotel with a hangover, a ring, and a note from her new wife, whose name she doesn’t know. Our story opens with a dream – a drunken haze of champagne pink and roses, that turns out to not have been a dream at all. Hardcore romance fans, who want the swoon of the love story, may therefore be disappointed in this book, which is light on the romance and heavy on Grace’s journey of self-discovery. I was never quite sure why Grace decided to stay married to Yuki – she had a gut feeling that they were happy when they were drunk and decided to get married, and though that was perhaps enough for Grace, it wasn’t enough for me. Sure, Grace’s out-of-character wedding is the precipitate factor that pushes her out of her safe (toxic) world of structure and routine, but her path to healing only partly involves Yuki. If you’re looking for a sapphic Vegas-wedding-gone-right book, this *technically* fits the bill, but the romance plot does not ground the story. But I think marketing it as a romance does everyone a grave disservice. Heat Factor: Not quite fade to black, but the sex writing is more focused on the emotions than the mechanicsĬharacter Chemistry: Veering into insta-love territory maybe it’s fateįor the record, I really enjoyed a lot about this book.

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers