![]() ![]() If you can’t suspend your disbelief and accept that bees can make honey pastries and wear a sort of makeup, you may never get picked up by the narrative current of the book. I will admit that “The Bees” might not be for everyone. This state, we slowly come to realise, although not as slowly as Flora 717 does, is relying on both a chemical and cultish mind control. Although Paull attempts to ease us in with a dubious framing device, set on the level of the beekeeper’s son, there can be no true preparation for a totalitarian bee state. ![]() We enter the world of this novel as surprised and disoriented as the protagonist, Flora 717, when she breaks from her waxy cocoon into the throbbing life of the hive. ![]() The novel encompasses an incredible scope of themes and topics in its gripping, but winding, plotline, although the knowledge of bees that Paull packs in is impressive. Trying to briefly describe Laline Paull’s “The Bees” in order to encourage people to read it seems like an impossible task. ![]()
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