Joyce’s Reviews > The Price of Honey > Status Update

It was literally on the public record that Barney was a cheat and still Honey had thought she was somehow special.

awaiting the commencement of his funeral service. People speak in low voices. A string quartet plays. It feels like a subdued cocktail party.

Barney's elderly mother, festooned in rubies, sits like an angry Christmas tree across the aisle from them.

sixty might have been Barney's chronological age, but his latest epigenetic clock test gave him a biological age of thirty-two! Only four years older than Honey. He was aiming for a biological age that matched her chronological age. He nearly got there.

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longevity without sacrifice He wanted to live forever while still eating and drinking the best the world had to offer.

She is probably thinking that if you marry a man more than thirty years older than you, then you should reasonably expect to one day be attending his funeral. "He only just had his sixtieth birthday," says Honey. "So young," agrees Taylor. She is overdoing it.

People have widely different responses to her husband's name. His company has both wiped out entire industries and saved millions of lives through cutting-edge medical technologies. He's inspirational. He's abhorrent. He and Mac have too much power, too much money, and too much influence. He and Mac are geniuses changing the world for the better.

She has the kind of celebrity where people can't name her unless they hear Barney's name first. Without him she doesn't exist.

She's rarely referred to as Luisa. Always her full name: Luisa Long. It's just one of those names.

A messy chignon. Barney's favorite hairstyle for her. It takes a lot of time to look like you just got out of bed. He won't get to pull out the pins tonight. Smudgy rock-star eye makeup. Right on the edge of too much. You want to give the idea of a hangover without looking like you truly are hungover. It's an art. A lost art.

She didn't get to debug him of any faults because he said his former wives had already pointed out all his faults and he'd rectified them. I'm bug-free, baby, he said. You got the latest version. State of the art.

It's funny to hear herself described as an "older woman". As if she has wisdom to offer anyone.