I really was not thrilled with this one. It's hard to put my finger on the reasons. I have a problem with happily-ever-after. This book ended the way I wanted it to end, but it just felt flat to me. OK, so Daddy Dearest walks away and leaves her with the Daughters of Mary. Good! But isn't that...
This is fairly well-written in a line-by-line sense but never engaged me. I kept making comparisons in my mind to similar books and found it wanting, and as pages passed this felt more and more contrived and implausible, too many questions piled up. This is the first person story of Lily Owen, a f...
“Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.” The continuos sound of humming bees fills this book. Bees swarm around as complex symbols, resembling people and their b...
Is it ever not going to be problematic to have a book about a young white girl finding nurturing black mother figures in the South? It's not the book itself, necessarily, just the part where this is practically a genre unto itself, and I haven't run into any books (certainly not with the stature of ...
Fourteen year old Lily is growing up in 1960s South Carolina during the struggle for civil rights. With her mother dead and her father abusive, the only person Lily feels close to is her black maid, Rosaleen. When Rosaleen is arrested after a tense altercation about race in town, Lily and Rosaleen...
An absolutely gripping coming-of-age story. This is normally not my style of book, but I was completely hooked from the get-go. I actually decided to get this because of the subject of bees - which are prevalent throughout the story, wonderfully so. An absolutely beautiful book that I encourage the ...
Lily Owens: Accidental murderer. Unloveable.Rosealeen: jail escapee.This book: not to bad considering it was for school. Lily accidentally killed her mom when she was 4. Her parents were arguing and the mom pulled out a gun. Little Lily picked it up and it went off. 10 years later her father tells h...
This is a phenomenal book. I put off writing a review for this because it's difficult to articulate what makes it so great. The narrator isn't perfect: Lily Owens runs away from home, she lies about who she is, spends a great deal of the book feeling helpless, and hides behind her friends when troub...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
