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If you’re looking for a book about a hot girl committing homicide (as I am, always), Honey is exactly what you’re after. I jumped on it when I saw copies available for review via Libro.fm.
Honey is set in the Sociology department of Cambridge, where Yrsa is completing her PhD into Afropessimism. She’s outraged when one of her fellow PhD candidates is (in a tale as old as time) used and discarded by a married professor. A strange opportunity for revenge occurs when Yrsa sees a bee fly into the professor’s drink. She doesn’t draw his attention to it. She lets it sting him, and then lets his anaphylactic reaction reach its natural (fatal) conclusion before seeking help.
She didn’t actually kill him (even though she thought he deserved to die). And yet, the rush of letting him die counteracts the monotony of her life. And she starts thinking about who else might be “asking for it” – the way that they say women are always “asking for it” when they are harassed and abused.
Honey is an intense, dark, funny, and provoking read – and it gripped me all the way through to the very end. The body count is realistic, though considerable, and the stakes are just high enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. I’m obsessed with Yrsa and the mental gymnastics she does to integrate her homicidal urges into her academic work. I’m intrigued by the way she positions her murders as a public service, one that’s also deeply emotionally gratifying. It’s the ultimate Good For Her novel, one that will definitely appeal to fans of How To Kill Your Family.
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