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The Beekeeper's Promise
by Henrietta Meire, Fiona Valpy
Rating this one is difficult for me because there were a lot of pieces of this story I loved but as a whole I didn't like it.
The Beekeeper's Promise is set up much differently than I thought it was going to be. You have two very different timelines that don't really have too much to do with each other besides the fact that our modern day character, Abi, is staying at the same location our historical character, Elaine, used to live.
I think if Valpy has stuck to this book being two distinct stories and didn't try to force them together it would have been a lot better. It felt so forced to have a modern day timeline randomly spattered throughout in a historical fiction novel.
Elaine's story was really captivating and I did enjoy these pieces most. When it comes to Abi's story it did have a lot of potential of being a book similar to that of Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us. If not even more interesting.
The Beekeeper's Promise is set up much differently than I thought it was going to be. You have two very different timelines that don't really have too much to do with each other besides the fact that our modern day character, Abi, is staying at the same location our historical character, Elaine, used to live.
I think if Valpy has stuck to this book being two distinct stories and didn't try to force them together it would have been a lot better. It felt so forced to have a modern day timeline randomly spattered throughout in a historical fiction novel.
Elaine's story was really captivating and I did enjoy these pieces most. When it comes to Abi's story it did have a lot of potential of being a book similar to that of Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us. If not even more interesting.