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There are a lot to things to be learnt from the day-to-day life presented to us readers. However, I do think this novel would’ve been better had it of been shorter. It’s about 100-150 pages too long. By the end, I just wanted to finish it. I felt the story dragged on and I would’ve liked to have seen this cut down. But, it is fascinating and it is extremely well-written and it’s a great piece of literary fiction.
Future source material for a prog-rock album. This has to be an allegory, right?
POPSUGAR prompt 12 (book from an animal's POV)
Flora 717 is born a sanitation worker bee but is soon discovered to have an intellectual gift that Sister Sage, the priestess finds intriguing. Flora 717 begins to find her place in the hive while facing dangers both within the hive and outside the hive. My dad was an amateur beekeeper, so I've always had a fascination with bees. Laline Paull gives the colony such a rich history that I found myself engrossed and engaged in her text. The Bees is a dys ...more
Flora 717 is born a sanitation worker bee but is soon discovered to have an intellectual gift that Sister Sage, the priestess finds intriguing. Flora 717 begins to find her place in the hive while facing dangers both within the hive and outside the hive. My dad was an amateur beekeeper, so I've always had a fascination with bees. Laline Paull gives the colony such a rich history that I found myself engrossed and engaged in her text. The Bees is a dys ...more
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