The Bees: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Orlagh Cassidy
- HarperAudio
- 2014-05-06
Summary:
The Handmaid’s Tale fits The Craving for food Games with this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.
Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the cheapest caste in her orchard hive where function and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like various other bees. With conditions threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and about The Bees: A Book strength are an asset. She is allowed to give food to the newborns in the royal nursery and to become forager, flying alone and absolve to gather pollen. She also discovers her way into the Queen’s internal sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both serious and ominous.
But when Flora breaks probably the most sacred regulation of all-daring to problem the Queen’s fertility-enemies abound, from your fearsome fertility law enforcement who enforce the strict sociable hierarchy towards the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest intuition to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that may provide her into conflict with her conscience, her center, her society-and business lead her to unthinkable deeds.
Fascinating, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you go through the world outdoors your window.