The Bees, by Lalaine Paull. I honestly got this from the library solely based on the cover. It is stunning and incredibly eye catching.

My assumptions about this book were one of a few things:
A. Killler Bees
B. Dystopian society due to the loss of bees
C. A warning for current us to heed the warning about saving the bees

It was NONE of these things. It was basically as far from those guesses as possible.

With that being said I really enjoyed the story in this book. We follow Flora, a bee at the bottom of the hives hierarchy. She emerges from her cell larger, dark and standing out she works her way from lowly sanitation worker to admired and praised forager.

I looked up the facts in this book and many of them were pretty spot on. While it is OBVIOUSLY a work of fiction with assumptions about the inner thoughts of bees I really enjoyed it. I felt it often read as a David Attenborough documentary the way we followed one bee throughout her life in the hive which made learning about different positions in the hive really interesting.

The writing was really well done and I had to continuously remind myself that I was reading about bees when certain scenes played out and Flora was treated in certain unkind ways.

Overall this book was very enjoyable. I’d recommend doing some research once you finish just to see how hives and bees actually work, but it’s a really cool way to learn about one of the worlds biggest assets.

Also. Save the effing bees!