Honey and Spice
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4.2 • 190 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A TIKTOK BOOK CLUB PICK
""Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers."" — New York Times Book Review
""A vibrant debut novel . . . Babalola is incisively funny, capturing the kick and sweetness of her title with her words."" — Entertainment Weekly
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time • Esquire • Vanity Fair • Oprah Daily • Cosmopolitan • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Southern Living • Buzzfeed • Women's Health Magazine • AudioFile • Popsugar • and more!
Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola’s dazzling debut novel, full of passion, humor, and heart, that centers on a young Black British woman who has no interest in love and unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the man she warned her girls about
Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together...
Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she’s made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of “situationships”, players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as “The Wastemen of Whitewell,” in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink.
They’re soon embroiled in a fake relationship to try and salvage their reputations and save their futures. Kiki has never surrendered her heart before, and a player like Malakai won’t be the one to change that, no matter how charming he is or how electric their connection feels. But surprisingly entertaining study sessions and intimate, late-night talks at old-fashioned diners force Kiki to look beyond her own presumptions. Is she ready to open herself up to something deeper?
A gloriously funny and sparkling debut novel, Honey and Spice is full of delicious tension and romantic intrigue that will make you weak at the knees.
""A smart, sexy summer read, which hits your brain and your romance buttons in one shot."" — Los Angeles Times
""The ultimate summer romance . . . It’s got all the juiciest, most satisfying romance tropes, but in Babalola’s capable hands, the story feels fresh and unique."" — The Cut, New York magazine
“Divine summer reading. Hilarious, hot, and heartfelt. ” — Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Flirting—good flirting—has its own drumbeat, an unseen force that seems to govern the back-and-forth. British author Bolu Babalola captures this perfectly in her debut novel. Whether she’s writing about her characters’ heartbreak or their hopes, their treasured friendships or their burning ambitions, her prose has an irresistible rhythm—the kind that sucks you into the story completely. Babalola’s heroine, Kiki, is a Black student at a predominantly white university. As the host of a campus radio show, Kiki dispenses a lot of good relationship advice, but she herself does not do relationships. Until she meets handsome new student Malakai, that is. Read by a wonderful narrator, Honey and Spice is a rom-com that feels entirely fresh.
Customer Reviews
Narration was on point
Love the style, language and progression of the main characters.
I rated 4 stars because this book should be appropriately labeled for young adults.
Love!
Bolu Babalola’s writing is beautiful -like poetry, like a song with a beat you feel in your chest. Weruche Opia’s voice is the perfect compliment to the writing. The story has a little bit of everything from flirty, slow burning romance to heartache, friendship, characters who evolve as the tale unfolds, triumph over the bad guy, finding community & delicious food.
Love this story
This story had me smiling from ear to ear. Great character development and pacing of the storyline. I felt it in my pulse.