A review by bookishcat23
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

3.0

I always enjoy a good book about families and how one event can trigger changes for everyone in the family. This novel is a good example of that. The ending disappointed me though. I think I know what Goldberg was trying to do, the idea that Eliza thinks all the changes are results of her winning a spelling bee and thus she can undo everything by purposely losing, but it proved for an unsatisfying ending. What about the journey that Eliza's success fostered? Her confidence in herself? Her closer relationship with her father? The message seems almost that she must lose those things in an effort to fix her family but you know it will never work.