5/24/2023 0 Comments The bees lalineWhereas others of her caste may only clean, Flora’s extraordinary strength and special skills earn her the right to work with bees of higher castes in the nursery and out foraging for nectar and pollen. Large and deformed, she’s slated to be euthanized, but a priestess bee saves her for her own nefarious purposes. The protagonist is Flora 717, born to the lowly sanitation caste in an orchard hive. The novel has been described as The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games, and with its plucky young heroine from the bottom caste of a rigidly hierarchical society defying a fertility-based authoritarian regime, that description rings true. Simply put, Laline Paull’s The Bees is Game of Thrones in a hive - with flowers. Sex, intrigue, battles, betrayals, blood, death - and flowers.
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