What Measure Is a Mook?: The Sages are willing to trade old and weak bees to the Spiders in exchange for information, and to send Sanitation workers especially to their death to ensure certain secrets are kept. There are several thousand Floras, so the Sages don't care, but Flora 717 feels their sacrifice keenly. Scott, Catherine (11 June 2014). "The Bees by Laline Paull, review: 'ambitious and beautiful' ". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 21 April 2016. Laser-Guided Amnesia: Flora's mind is wiped after she fails her second test, reducing her to the level of her kin on the surface. But something of herself lingers under the surface and her mind is restored after hearing the hive mind. Straub, Emma (23 May 2014). "Sunday Book Review: Hive Mentality: The Bees by Laline Paull". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 April 2016.

The Bees by Laline Paull: Summary and reviews - BookBrowse

I liked the story and how each turns their challenges into a means by which they grow and heal. Each person finds the need for community and support something once frighteningly uncomfortable but now a light that causes them each to thrive as a result. Found this in the feed. Sounded interesting. Decided it was worth a borrow within my other dozen reads. With a little bit of humor and a whole lot of heart, The Music of Bees tells the story of how to overcome adversity and move forward in the face of tragedy, and pain. That's why that stories like The Bees is still relevant and always is necessary to take on again the topic. An exploration of the new breed of beekeepers in London, following them through the changing seasons.Author Sue Monk Kidd, Author of the Secret Life of Bees and the Mermaid Chair". Archived from the original on 2013-09-17 . Retrieved 2014-01-08. The author achieved a fantastic job by bringing out different and meticulously well-crafted human portraits to tell this poignant story!

The Bees by Laline Paull review – a fantasy with a sting in

That buzzing in your ear might be more cause for concern that you’d realized. New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by 2015 But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all - daring to challenge the Queen's fertility - enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society - and lead her to unthinkable deeds. The film adaptation (directed by Annabel Jankel, script by Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth) captures much of the spirit of the novel, with expressive performances from Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin. It is beautifully filmed and sensitively directed, with a powerful, subtle score by Claire M Singer. Paull’s orchard hive is enchanting. It is a castle complete, from corridors and antechambers, secret passageways and nurseries, great halls where tales are told in a furious shuffle of delicate feet and trembling antennae, and orgies of nectar unfold amidst throbbing abdomens and gaping spiracles. The Hive, presided over by the beloved Queen, thrives according to a carefully-tuned social hierarchy: from the lowliest sanitation worker and hard-working foragers to the crafty Teasel nurses, callous fertility police and prescient Sage priestesses. This is a matriarchal society—a ripe, sensual, emotive world where females are bossy, bitchy, weepy, nurturing, subservient, and often in a state of warm, sweet tumescence. Males are occasional visitors, arriving as drones in a cloud of Henry VIII bawdy revelry, flirting with bee wenches, getting sloppy-drunk and generally making a mess of things with spilled bodily fluids.

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The world-building is amazing - the psychology and structure of a bee society is already interesting and weird enough, but add a little bit of dystopia, interaction with other species and real-life ecological issues and I cannot complain. IIIIIIIIIIIII . . . have no idea how to rate this book*. I have no idea how to talk about this book. I have no idea how to think about this book. I mean, on the one hand, I’m so glad something like this — so weird and weird and just weird — can be published. But on the other hand, I have no frame of reference for really talking about it? Other than maybe Watership Down or Animal Farm, but those books had such different agendas from this one that the comparison doesn’t really work for me. Author Eileen Garvin is a beekeeper living in Hood River Oregon. This story takes place in the same place and centers around bee keeping, and she uses her authentic knowledge to pen a captivating story. Bees have captured the attention of many authors, many of those novels I have read. This novel makes you want to become a beekeeper. I learned an abundant amount about bees and their life. Also, it brought the toxic use of pesticides to my attention. Bees are not a fan.