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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
For some reason I absolutely loved this book. It just had me hooked!
short story:
What is wrong with this book? everything.
Long Story:
It's full of boring character, pages about nothing, it repeats the same thing all the time, the main character not have charisma and is a very big mary sue, Jesus Christ bee version, the beehive looks like a sect 101 manual...
Well, I have nothing against christiang books, but this it's too much, to much shitty, go to read the trilogy of the Dun Cow instead if you're looking for a good animal christian book.
What is wrong with this book? everything.
Long Story:
It's full of boring character, pages about nothing, it repeats the same thing all the time, the main character not have charisma and is a very big mary sue, Jesus Christ bee version, the beehive looks like a sect 101 manual...
Well, I have nothing against christiang books, but this it's too much, to much shitty, go to read the trilogy of the Dun Cow instead if you're looking for a good animal christian book.
Super interesting plot. Feminist undertones. Equality undertones. Loved the writing combined with the science.
I wanted to like this more than I did. Paull does an amazing job of world-building, creating a complete culture and religion for the bees and integrating scientific knowledge of bee behaviour into the story in an interesting way.
Around halfway through, the story began to lose steam for steam for this reader and I struggled to finish it. The bees lurch from crisis to crisis and nearly every page seems to contain the phrase "Flora wept", giving the story a soap-operaish quality. (Some of this may be the fault of the audiobook narrator who really irritated me with her cartoony voices.)
Still, I commend Paull for raising awareness of the very real crisis bees face and for creating such a vivid and detailed world.
Around halfway through, the story began to lose steam for steam for this reader and I struggled to finish it. The bees lurch from crisis to crisis and nearly every page seems to contain the phrase "Flora wept", giving the story a soap-operaish quality. (Some of this may be the fault of the audiobook narrator who really irritated me with her cartoony voices.)
Still, I commend Paull for raising awareness of the very real crisis bees face and for creating such a vivid and detailed world.
tense
fast-paced
What’s most interesting about this book is that the bees do not represent anything other than bees. It is no fable, instead it’s an attempt for the author and reader to imagine for themselves the life of a bee.
The book goes to great pains to create a different way of experiencing the world, through smell, chemicals, electricity and dance. The aliens of the bees experience and values are conveyed very well.
This bats against the needs of a novel, and sometimes the book becomes too strange and alien and and others the bees become too anthropomorphised.
There is also the problem of Flora 717, to be a protagonist she needs to be exceptional, but any exceptional bee is killed - the book has to constantly fudge this issue.
This stops the book ever being really great but it can’t be faulted for ambition and I’d prefer to read books like this that really try something different.
The book goes to great pains to create a different way of experiencing the world, through smell, chemicals, electricity and dance. The aliens of the bees experience and values are conveyed very well.
This bats against the needs of a novel, and sometimes the book becomes too strange and alien and and others the bees become too anthropomorphised.
There is also the problem of Flora 717, to be a protagonist she needs to be exceptional, but any exceptional bee is killed - the book has to constantly fudge this issue.
This stops the book ever being really great but it can’t be faulted for ambition and I’d prefer to read books like this that really try something different.
I love dystopian novels but I hate bees. After reading this book I'm still not super keen on bees but I did love The Bees.