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Here is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan

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hex_girl_13's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

sdraws's review against another edition

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1.0

God, this book really is the most asinine and boring part of straight literature. It’s the same tiresome song and dance - a woman cheats on her husband with a married man and is devastated when he won’t leave his wife for her. Why would she expect loyalty from a cheating man? Why do side pieces think so highly of themselves?
The book doesn’t delve into anything interesting and instead focuses on how bummed she is in the form of the worst “poetry” I’ve ever read. By comparison, Rupi Kaur seem like William Wordsworth or Lord Byron. I’m very much glad I didn’t buy this book.

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4.0

I like Sarah Crossan's unusual style of writing and was pulled into this tale that slowly revealed the layers of complexity. Our narrator has just learned of the death of her married lover and we enter her world of grief and the madness that come with it. Very interesting story.

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3.0

I enjoy reading novels in verse, but I did not understand why this was the format the author used to tell this story of a woman's grief over her dead lover.

Ana Kelly should have been a competent, professional woman, but she enters into an affair with a married man. It is clear to the reader that their relationship in toxic, but despite repeated attempts to break things off, they continued to meet up. When he dies unexpectedly, Ana must deal with the fact that only one person knows she is grieving his death.

So what does Ana decide to do? Get close to his widow! The novel is told in dual timelines where we see how the affair started and progressed and how Ana is doing now.