Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Genre: Modern Fiction
Pages (words): 336 (94,467)
Readability: 5.6
Rating (out of 5 stars): **1/2
Reviewed by: Ben
Description: Lily Owens' mom died when she was young, and growing up with her not-so-fatherly father has been tough. Eventually, enough is enough and she runs away from home and ends up at the home of August Boatwright. While at August's, she learns about bees, but more importantly, about life.
Thoughts: I don't have any major complaints with this book, but it just didn't capture me. It wasn't boring, and it wasn't painful, but if I hadn't finished it it wouldn't have bothered me at all. Perhaps what I disliked most about the book was that the "life lessons" were rather thinly veiled behind the plot. The whole book just seemed a little too sweet and sugary for my taste, like all of the honey the bees make somehow went to the author's head. Overall, it was okay, but I probably will avoid the movie version (I hear it has Queen Latifah. Yikes!).
Disclaimer: A few mild swear words, but overall quite clean.
1 comment:
That's what you get for reading a girly book, Ben. ;)
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