The Secret Life of Bees, a novel written by Sue Monk Kidd, has a very interesting plot. The story was set in Sylvan and Tiburon, South Carolina in the 50's or 60's when their were many racists and African Americans were looked down upon. In my opinion, this book was very good because it had an interesting story line and had parts of the story that I could relate to. I think that it had a good plot because not a lot of books have this type of story line. The main character Lily tries to find out more about her mom, but ends up finding out more about herself, and along her journey she finds motherly figures that end up loving her like a daughter.
The smaller characters do not change much throughout the book but the main character changes back and forth into completely different personalities. I think that the writing style of the author was a lot like many other writing and it could have had a more unique style to make the book more interesting. It seemed like the author would have made the book more exciting if it had been in third person so you could see from the perspectives of the other characters because some characters stayed mysterious and were left out of the book in many parts and it would have been interesting to see what they had been doing too.
The plot of the story was that the main character, Lily, was trying to find out more about her mother’s life, and basically, about her life before she died. She decides to go on a journey where she struggles to find out who she is, and even more than that, the secret of her mother’s death. Along her journey she runs into a family who she becomes very close to. Lily becomes close to each of the characters in the family in a different way. In one character she finds love, in another, a motherly figure, in one a friend and in another, someone to trust and look up to. This is a good book for people who like stories where character's lives and feelings are the main focus to the book and not action.
In this book, Lily is the main character and the book is shown from her perspective. Throughout the book, her character's personality changes a lot. Starting out in the book, Lily is a very shy person and she always is respectful to her father and tries to follow the rules even if she doesn't like them. Into the book she realizes what she can do with her life, like go on an adventure, and completely changes. All of the characters in this book are usually very serious and so it wouldn't be a good book for people who like books that are full of action or comedy.
Overall, the book is full of love of family and the main character trying to understand herself and her mother more. I would recommend this book to people who like when books move at a slow pace and seem like they are truly real life situations. I would not recommend this book to anyone who doesn't like serious books or books that don't have much happening most of the time.
6 comments:
The book sounds interesting and I like to read it in the future
~Olivia A.
It is interesting about how Lily's personality changes through out the book. That tells me that I can expect something big happening
~Frederick P.
I really enjoyed reading your review it made me want to read the book in the future. However I am not the kind of person who likes slow books. Great Job.
Taylor
I also really enjoyed the book review as well. I liked how you included the pros and cons about the book. So people wont choose a bad book. Great Job! Maybe I should read this book too!
Trent
This was really well written and it makes me want to read the book because I like stories that have to due with characters' emotions, feelings and overall personality and stuff change. I also like how you commented on how the pace of the story is a bit slow so that people that don't like those types of books are aware of the writing style it is written in.
-ERICA RENEE D :]
I like how you mentioned that it is a slow moving book and that it goes thought the whole story and not skipping ahead
-Dan L :[
I liked how you explain what Lily found in each member of the family, where where they?
~Ross
I really liked how you explained your opinion and how Lily's personality changed back and forward, and it was also very interesting when you were ending it.
~Karen
I liked how you described how the book could have been written a little better in the sense that he could have wrote it in the third person.I like it because it describes how when a person would read it it would be in the first person.
In your review I really admired how you gave each paragraph a different topic like the plot, characters and recemendations. I also liked how you said what happened a little later in the review just to keep the reader interested through out the entire entry.
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