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A review by moonfawn
Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult
4.0
This was wonderfully sad, hopeful and informative. Jodi and Jennifer did an absolute thorough and amazing job at doing research for so many important topics in this book. Everything from honey bees, to LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, domestic violence, the criminal justice system, and medical diagnosis that include rare types of genetic mutations.
I absolutely adored the structure of the novel with both Olivia and Lily’s point of views tying together with how the ecosystem of honey bees work. I learned a lot of interesting facts about the topics mentioned, and the things I did know I was happily pleased to see have some light shed upon them.
My only gripes being that I believe some scenes were a bit repetitive in terms of the point it was trying to get across, where I think the novel could have been reduced in size just a tad. Also, we don’t really know what ends up becoming of Asher and Braden’s relationship. Including what Olivia thinks might happen to her after the trial is over. That was really never touched back on and I would have liked to have closure in that department. But hey, that’s really the only fault I feel.
With all of that being said, I rated this 4.5 stars rounding down. (I’m not one to rate books 5 stars very often. But this was close in terms of enjoyment!)
”How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”
I absolutely adored the structure of the novel with both Olivia and Lily’s point of views tying together with how the ecosystem of honey bees work. I learned a lot of interesting facts about the topics mentioned, and the things I did know I was happily pleased to see have some light shed upon them.
My only gripes being that I believe some scenes were a bit repetitive in terms of the point it was trying to get across, where I think the novel could have been reduced in size just a tad. Also, we don’t really know what ends up becoming of Asher and Braden’s relationship. Including what Olivia thinks might happen to her after the trial is over. That was really never touched back on and I would have liked to have closure in that department. But hey, that’s really the only fault I feel.
With all of that being said, I rated this 4.5 stars rounding down. (I’m not one to rate books 5 stars very often. But this was close in terms of enjoyment!)
”How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?”