Honey Goddess

Abrams deftly warps time and perception with a turn of phrase, conjuring a story so visceral, what's material becomes immaterial and what's ethereal congeals. A story of the bonds of love and friendship which carries a strong undertow where voices from the past and present push against and yearn for each other, until this undertow swells up and envelops, reconnecting us to the essence of who and why we are. A gripping, transportive read, cover to cover.
Abiola Abrams has found a powerful way to translate African spirituality and magic for mainstream Black culture. So many of us were raised to fear and demonize the ancestral practices that are our birthright. Abiola gathers what was hidden, forbidden, and forgotten, places it all into her sacred cauldron with a pinch of romance, and serves it up hot-in dazzling novel form. Honey Goddess is reclamation, remembrance, and magic woven into every page.
With Honey Goddess, Abiola Abrams weaves a rich, captivating tale of love, legacy, and finding your true powers. Lola's journey of transformation is pure magic.
Through Honey Goddess, Abiola Abrams proves she cannot be boxed into one genre. Abrams is a healer and a storyteller-through the prose of Honey Goddess she performs the work of giving medicine through a story that mirrors our own experiences. Honey Goddess births possibilities that can deeply resonate for Black women healing through fiction. An effortless read, from front to back.
Honey Goddess is a soulful, triumphant debut that had me rooting for the heroine right from the start. This book is equal parts fantasy, romance, and a guide on how to love yourself fiercely. Watching Lola embrace her every curve and flaw all while tossing humility to the wind and stepping fully into her power, heritage, and her gifts is nothing short of electrifying. Then you throw in a billionaire god who worships her like the queen she is, and you get a book that's sexy, delicious, and unforgettable. What's not to love?
Honey Goddess is the novel I've been waiting for. It's an entertaining page turner that synthesizes modern day realism, Black woman swagger, historical spirituality and mysticism with relatability and humor. While the novel might be classified as fantasy, it feels so real!
Entertaining, empowering, and magical, I could not put Honey Goddess down! I loved the juxtaposition between modern-day life as a woman in NYC, ancestral veneration, intuitive powers, and the ancient power of Oshun. This is a must-have for every goddess lover, mystic, and orisha enthusiast's library.
Honey Goddess is a divination come to life. Guided by the Goddesses, Queens, and Medicine Women of the diaspora, Goddess Abiola casts a love story that refuses to stay in one lifetime: lineages moving through time, finding each other again and again, laying bare the healing soul of a people. This is a book about erasure. About everything that has been taken from us, and everything we take back. Honey Goddess reveals the ancestral wisdoms that break the cycle: the power of women in Circle. The relationship with land. The love between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, friends who become kin. Romance, mystery, and prophecy braided into one, you will devour this book . . . and it will feed you. Amen. To The Veil
The Honey Goddess is a sacred invocation of remembering. It is the loving preparation for a spiritual bath that cleanses and replenishes the soul from the mire of forgetfulness. It opens portals for the blessed journey of enlightenment through overcoming by defeating the daring nemesis of unconsciousness. It is the exquisite magic of collective healing. More than the need for communal expressions of love, it is the unbroken threads of antiquity powered by it. The Oshun cards pulled at the start of each chapter are incantations for divine order, transmutation, and the rediscovery of being 'one voice in my ancestors' song.' The stunning African goddess next door finally receives her crown. She is reunited with her divine mate in a majestic dance of the elements. Theirs is a loving dance of transcendence, embodied by African powers and the marvellous vitality of ancestors. Abiola Abrams weaves a wonderful page-turner that invites total immersion-if not submission to a long-awaited calling to return home.