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A review by brennasherrill
The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young
1.0
I really found nothing to connect with in this novel, and I’m not even sure why this story exists. I requested this from Net Galley because I saw that it was a story about four sisters, which always signals to me that it’s going to be some kind of nod to Little Women. This isn’t do much a nod as a flashy billboard since the phrase “the those little women” is used numerous times in The Hive, but for no clear reason.
I felt that only two of the four sisters had distinct personalities. This book really wants to engage with the idea of preparation (or lack of it) but I again ask, to what end? What am I supposed to do with this? Though the book supposedly took place in 2007-2008, I often felt like this was forgotten or at least that it was hard for me to see this time frame—I think too many books I’ve read lately that use this time period overestimate the amount of texting we were doing from 2000-2010.
I don’t know. I just really didn’t get this. I did learn some stuff about bed bugs, though.
I felt that only two of the four sisters had distinct personalities. This book really wants to engage with the idea of preparation (or lack of it) but I again ask, to what end? What am I supposed to do with this? Though the book supposedly took place in 2007-2008, I often felt like this was forgotten or at least that it was hard for me to see this time frame—I think too many books I’ve read lately that use this time period overestimate the amount of texting we were doing from 2000-2010.
I don’t know. I just really didn’t get this. I did learn some stuff about bed bugs, though.