The Bees by Laline PaullMe: It’s about bees?Friend: Yes. You have to read it.Me: Like real bee
The Bees by Laline PaullMe: It’s about bees?Friend: Yes. You have to read it.Me: Like real bees?Friend: No, it’s told from the perspective of a bee.Me: The main character is a bee?Friend: Yes. If you had told me that I’d gobble up a novel following the life of a bee, I would have thought you were crazy. I couldn’t fathom how a story about fictional insects - or real insects for that matter - could be enthralling. It’s possible I was wrong.Paull sets up the hive in The Bees like a totalitarian government that is also a cult. Each bee has her place in the hive and “only the queen may lay eggs.” The bees gather multiple times a day for prayer and are inculcated with hive doctrine while concurrently infused with love from the Queen, which acts like some kind of addictive drug. These bees are a step away from drinking the Kool Aid.We follow the rise of one underdog sanitation bee as she ascends the ranks. And I have to laud Paull on a particularly disturbing section in the book in which this hive mind takes over with dire consequences. They did what?! She so blind-sided me with bee brutality that I reread the section again just to verify it happened. This is one time when you should let yourself be stung. -- source link
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