The Bees - Laline Paull • BookLikes (ISBN:9780007558506)

The Bees

by: Laline Paull (author)

The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the... show more

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ISBN: 9780007558506

Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd

Pages no: 346

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Speculative Fiction, Animals, Dystopia, Fiction

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Georgetta rated it

8 years ago

http://Georgetta.booklikes.com Georgetta 4.0

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Not something that I would normally read, but it was surprisingly enjoyable and surpassed my expectations. My inner biologist (I studied biology for my undergrad) was brought out again in me after this.

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DoodlePanda reads stuff rated it

9 years ago

http://DoodlePanda.booklikes.com DoodlePanda reads stuff 3.0 The Bees

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I'm finding it tricky to rate this book... I don't think I've read anything similar to compare it with, and to me it seems like a fairly original story. I did enjoy reading it though, it was interesting to see the life of the bees (though I'm not sure that all the facts are 100% correct). A lot of t...

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William's Book Blog rated it

10 years ago

http://WilliamCampbellPowell.booklikes.com William's Book Blog 4.0 It's the Bees Knees

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#TheBees, by @LalinePaull In concept, this is an adventurous novel, which makes it a challenge to review. It's fiction, but it's clear that Paull has done a lot of research into the subject matter, so it's almost a dramatisation of biological science, just as so many early SF novels were a drama...

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