I stopped reading Morgan Rogers' Honey Girl (#1,036) midway through when I realized how depressed I had become reading it. Plus, I got tired of the constant "Fuck white people." leitmotif. How in the world did this book make it to a list of 2021's best rom-coms? And did the critic who placed this book on the list actually read this book, or did they merely do it based on the cover blurb and the fact that the author is queer and Black?
The set-up of marrying drunk in Las Vegas and waking to an empty bed and a totally unknown spouse who abandoned you there has plenty of room for comic potential. Too bad the author chose to dwell instead on how Grace Porter, the title Honey Girl, can't find meaning in life or a job after devoting eleven years of her life to a doctorate in astronomy. It takes her months to get off her duff and actually track down the woman she married months ago. When she finds her, it turns out spouse Yuki Yamamoto is living an equally depressing, unfulfilling, squalid life in New York City.
If you're in the mood for rom-com, do yourself a favor and go find an actual example of the genre, like Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A For Aunties (See my post of 11/20/2021.), or While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory (See my post of 1/19/2022.).
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