3.5
Honey
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A dark, provocative, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Esquire, Elle, Glamour, Debutiful, Book Riot, SheReads, Stylist
She just wants to know what justice feels like.
Yrsa is bored: bored with her PhD program, her entitled students, and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read. But most of all, she’s bored with the men in her life—especially the bad ones.
And then, one sunny afternoon, she accidentally kills one.
Suddenly a problematic professor is dead, and Yrsa, well—she’s no longer bored.
Emboldened, she starts to chase the high, and soon no misbehaving sexist man within commuting distance is safe.
Finally Yrsa’s academic research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminist and racial solidarity justify her actions? And how long until her actions—and buried family secrets—come back to unravel her?
A Most Anticipated Book of the Year: Esquire, Elle, Glamour, Debutiful, Book Riot, SheReads, Stylist
She just wants to know what justice feels like.
Yrsa is bored: bored with her PhD program, her entitled students, and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read. But most of all, she’s bored with the men in her life—especially the bad ones.
And then, one sunny afternoon, she accidentally kills one.
Suddenly a problematic professor is dead, and Yrsa, well—she’s no longer bored.
Emboldened, she starts to chase the high, and soon no misbehaving sexist man within commuting distance is safe.
Finally Yrsa’s academic research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminist and racial solidarity justify her actions? And how long until her actions—and buried family secrets—come back to unravel her?
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3.5
“yrsa was bored and tryna put theology of afropessemism into practice 🫣🥲
there's so much to unpack from this book, that i'm not sure if this will be my final rating. as a black woman in a american, it's an interesting view of the identity of a black woman in the uk. it's very much samesies but not.
i was feeling like she was seeing in that blue twilight-like tent and then she found something that allows her to taste sounds and hear gear colors. and you find yourself tryna hear her out. and with the dynamic of her and the people around her because of their perception of her allowed you to feel empathy for her.
you will wanna dive a little more into afropessemism while reading to understand more. it made me feel like i was back in one of my college classes. learning the thing you do, def makes this story so twisty, my jaw was on the floor.”“This book was crazy ( and I liked it). I don't know about the rating yet because I'm still digesting the book.
I really like the way the author writes but I feel like I needed to have a deeper understanding of Afropessimism to really be able to compare what she's saying to the actual meaning of the theory. I wonder if maybe she took on too much? She gives us a lot to think about it and I really like the character dynamic between Yrsa and her mother. I don't know what to say about this book but it's definitely a wild ride and far from boring.”
About Imani Thompson
Imani Thompson is a British writer with Jamaican heritage. During her time studying sociology at the University of Cambridge, her short stories were published in The Mays and won the Vogue new writer’s prize. She wrote Honey while working as a bookseller at Daunt Books and is now at work on her second novel.
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