cappuccino136 's review for:

Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris

5.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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There is a tale the bees tell....  A fairytale novel built of interconnected stories. A magical adventure through the nine worlds connected by the river Dream. Some of the stories read like fables. The prose and the storytelling have the feeling of very old fairy tales with a few modern tweaks here and there to characters and tropes. The Fae (or Silken Folk in this book) are full of nature magic and trickery. Like the old stories, there is violence and death. As some characters keep coming back, we get character development for several key characters. The author weaves an intricate story web and I was caught up in it. There are beautiful illustrations (black and white as well as some color). In a word, enchanting.