A review by miss_vonnegut
The Bees by Laline Paull

challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.5

What an interesting book! I used to love dystopia before 2017, but it's felt too real in recent years. This was lovely because it hits a lot of the dystopian themes but in the setting of a beehive, which helps it to feel more removed from reality. I would have given it a higher rating except there were a few passages about "dark bees" that felt racial. For example "...it was a fine, dark fellow who stank of it, and he said it made his dronewood hard as the twig we stood on... at least I think that's what he said, in his thick and foreign tongue." Yikes.
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