kamagates4 's review for:

The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia

4.0

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I love reading stories where I have no education of the background of events taking place. I love learning about history in such a unique way. The Murmur of Bees did exactly that. It was set in Northern Mexico amidst the Spanish Flu pandemic and the Mexican Revolution, talk about a double whammy of a history lesson. It opened with a nursemaid finding a boy literally swarmed in bees. The bees, his protectors, his magic are constantly with the little boy. The book dips in and out of storylines of the family who adopted the boy. While very elegantly written, it could be difficult to follow at times but the prose was very lovely.

And a story that comes full circle is one of my favorite types and this story, truly leads back around. 4 stars, audio.