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cherry_lane 's review for:

The Beekeeper's Promise by Fiona Valpy
4.0

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this story- which is very much the story of Eliana, a young woman living in France during WWII. The present day story of Abi is not nearly as prominent.

Eliana manages to hold on to her integrity and her composure as her world is destroyed. She does her best to just keep keepin’ on while playing a fairly minor, yet still potentially dangerous, role in the French Resistance. She makes it through the war years, and is able to pick up the pieces and go on.

Picking up the pieces and going on in the face of personal tragedy is the lesson Abi needs to learn, but the connection between the two stories is slim, and, in my opinion, a little forced.

Although I never really felt the connection between the two stories, and although I’m not much in the mood for reading about man’s inhumanity to man, I did, slowly, get drawn into Eliana’s story. Abi’s story was pretty easy to guess early on, and really didn’t have much of an impact for me.


It’s too well written to be a 3 star book so I went with 4, but it wasn’t exactly 4 star enjoyment for me.