Customer Reviews

They Say She Tastes Like Honey: A Novel

5 star:		(18)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Hint to readers with blinders on: Romance isn't always perfect. I picked this book up last week and couldn't put it down. It succeeds as a romance, a comedy, a drama. Who says romance is perfect and that every recovering alcoholic has to go to A.A. meetings (I didn't)? Just because this book may be out of your comfort zone doesn't mean it isn't worthy of a Lammy Award and more. I give it an A+.

I gave this book a 4 because once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I got involved with the characters in the book, especially Macy. I guess some people could lump this book together with any other romance novel commonly found on shelves at any store, but really it isn't. This book has true heart. While reading it, I would stop and think,"Is this really fiction?" because it seemed so real. Maybe this is because I can more readily identify with the characters and their lives. I hope Ms. Sawyer's first novel is not her last.

I want to be Macy or do I want to be Faith? Either way it would be great to be so witty. I loved the book, read it cover to cover in one sitting. Getting lost in a good book is better than Zoloft. This did the trick.

I was sad to see this book was labeled a lesbian romance because in reality it reaches much deeper. There are pieces that are actually heartbreaking. Beneath the profanity and harsh wit beats the heart of something much deeper---I hope this isn't her last book.

This is the best book I've read since David Sedaris' "Holidays On Ice". I read nightly and I'm a tough critic, but this is simply an incredible book. It's funny, it's chic, it's sad, it's hot. All this and you'll read it in a day. Bravo!

Is it really, really impossible for an author to write a real lesbian book where one of the "lesbian" characters does not screw a man and get pregnant in the end? This little "twist" was entirely predictable from the beginning to me and now I regret wasting about six hours reading this. Not only that, but the main character Macy was a raunchy little slut. Reading about someone who constantly drinks, does drugs, gets sick, and then does so all over again gets very boring, very fast. It was poorly written and did not deserve the exciting review on the back cover since nothing really happens in the entire book. That's right, nothing happens besides Macy wandering around making herself too intoxicated to stand up and hurting the wimpy people who are naive enough to show her some love. The only funny part of the entire book was the museum incident. The rest is boring.

it is seldom that i feel strongly enough about a book to write an online review. even rarer is the urge to send "fan mail" to the author. this book has me doing both.

the plot is improbable, the characters broadly drawn, and the chronology hazy. yet somehow, it works. macy, the main character, is a driven, cigarette-smoking, bed-hopping manhattan lesbian. faith is the beguiling, honest, fresh-faced twenty-something who steals her heart. their courtship (if one may call it that) speeds between hilarity and pathos. i don't want to give away any of the wonderful specifics ... but these characters are so real, so full of life, that i feel i know them. even better, i want to spend more time with them. (sequel, please?) buy the book -- hang out with them for a long afternoon, and see if you don't agree.

my only quibble is with the proofreader. while i didn't feel compelled to read with my red pencil in hand, the typos were annoying and detracted from a wonderful read.

What a great book! I haven't much time to read usually, but for this one I MADE time! I couldn't wait to get back to it each night! Well written, great humor and awesome characters. If this is the first book, I can't wait for the next!!!

I rarely laugh outloud, when reading a book. With this one I did.
The main character Macy was a very believable character. At times I liked her, and at times I thought "Why would she do that!"
A very quick read. I couldn't put it down. I would recommend, highly.

I gave this four stars because, well, I wrote it and don't want to seem like a complete jerk (or someone self-loathing enough to give it a 1), and I had to choose SOME rating.

I'm writing this to thank every reader who has taken the time to put their thoughts down and send them to Amazon. Writers read these things, at least I do, and what you say really matters. Especially when it's good.

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Best,

Michelle Sawyer