She should have received “the Kindness” and been disposed of quickly, but Flora 717 has some unusual talents in her mutant “sanitation bee” body.

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All Men Are Perverts: Drones are universally lecherous and hedonistic, with the exception of Sir Linden. As the vocal vibrations sent the fragrance of the Queen’s Love shimmering through the membrane of the honeycomb and deep into their bodies, some of the floras made incoherent sounds of happiness, while others made rhythmic movements as if trying to dance. It also incorporates all of the appeal factors that work for just about anyone looking for a good book: stunning setting, fabulous characters (even if they are bees), intriguing story, and great writing.She is larger for one, possessed of great determination, curiosity, and a capacity for speech that is mostly suppressed among her peers. Originally a book about an adventurous bee who leaves the hive and befriends other insects, this much-loved character has grown to have her own comic strip, and international anime TV series. Except, I thought it would actually be bees, not some weird human-bee-hybrid-which-seems-like-a-cult book. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

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I mean, on the one hand, I’m so glad something like this — so weird and weird and just weird — can be published.Aside from the level of sentience displayed by the bees, the novel is an accurate portrayal of roles within a hive, including the vast majority being female and the few males treated well but born only to breed. Lily finds out that May had a twin sister, April, who died by suicide with their father's shotgun when they were younger. Final Solution: All bees that deviate too much from their kin's size and shape, or who have some kind of deformity are given The Kindness.

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Of course, apart from the fact that worker bees are supposed to die after they sting, the author really knows her stuff! Animal Naming Conventions: A worker bee's name is the plant-themed name of her caste followed by a number. But this Flora can become a nursery work, a forager and more moving up and around the beehive hierarchy. Also, the fuckers kept comparing this book to The Hunger Games , which is SO COMPLETELY ABSURD and also WRONG (also The Handmaid’s Tale , which is a bit more appropriate), . Other elements – the rigid lifetime caste system, the lurid scenes of slaughter when the drones are culled, the gushing crushes on Holy Mother and on Maleness – reflect purely human assumptions about totalitarian states, and gender psychology.

They maintain the garden's biological balance, fertilize vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and recycle nutrients within the soil. I wasn't sure I wanted to read this as I tend to shy away from anything written from the point-of-view of anything from the animal kingdom, but once I got into this I could not put it down. A certain genetic malfunction endowed her with a potential that ordinary cleaners do not possess, in the novel it is the ability to speak, although for the life of me I do not understand how it correlates with the real communication of bees, which occurs through dance and pheromones. Paull’s writing is often lyrical and the reader is carried along with Flora as she experiences through smells, and sounds and her other “bee senses” what drives the hive’s efforts and protects it from harm.