Ahh, this book is so weird and fascinating and I LOVED IT. I wanted to read it nonstop. Such an enjoyable reading experience for the first book of the year! It's certainly not for everyone, but I thought the author did a great job creating the bee world and making it compelling. At times, I wondered how it would work if she had done it with humans but in a bee-like world, but some of the violence would have been WAY over the top with humans, and the bees give it some objectivity. Now I really want to read up on how hives form.