Honey and Spice Bolu Babalola

First of all the writing is awesome because I HATED the annoying, idiot, know-it-all main character at the beginning of the story. Her attitude almost made me put down the book forever, but I kept reading for her best friend's sweet personality and romance. And it turns out that the way I felt about the main character is how background characters felt about her as well. They confront her about it and she apologies and changes her behavior.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "DUH!! Characters are supposed to be flawed!!" and yes, you're correct. But if you're a girl then you've probably grown up reading about girls who are soo not like other girls. The characters who "aren't boy crazy" and "like books more than people" and this character was smelling like that something CRAZY. She isn't just not like other girls, she has a PODCAST where she tells other girls which guys to date because she is the only person in college who knows a player when she sees one.

Speaking of players Malachi is the BEST. He is genuinely such an awful fucking person but it's okay because he didn't mean it. He was just trying not to hurt anyone's feelings. I hate people like him, genuinely. He's not another fuck boy either. Man is a genuine, black 90's sitcom style player. He asks girls out, makes them feel special, makes plans for the future with them knowing that he has no intention of being there. Then when he pops out with another girl he's like "Well, why are you hurt? You knew what this was." like that's CRAZY.  It's evil, tbh. Then he has the nerve to be like, "well maybe I was wrong to do that but I just didn't want to disappoint them." like bro there's no way to avoid that.

*end Malachi hate rant*

I feel like that's all I needed to say. I liked this book, though. The characters were complicated, the ending was nice. The characters don't have sex and what they do doesn't really take up more than like a page, so it's not really "spicy".