My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways.
Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people.
He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie doesn’t see a monster when she looks at Dresden.
Essie is fascinated and delighted by his changing features. Risking his own life, he holds back his bees and spares her. What starts out as a simple act of mercy ends up unraveling Dresden’s solitary life and Essie’s tormented one. Their impossible romance might even be powerful enough to unravel a centuries-old curse.
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Ahh how I missed Meg Kassel's writing! "Black Bird of Gallows" was a very interesting, scary and emotional read and learning that there was another book tied into this larger world I decided to read it.
And I concluded that Dresden's curse was far worse than Reece's.
Being a beekeeper means that inside your body you house thousand of magic-like bees which if they sting you will amplify the evil in you and in the end you'll do something evil. Also, Dresden takes in the face of the bees' victims and wears them in an ever-fluid face which kind of reminded me of the Slenderman.
*shudders*
When he arrives in a new town he meets Essie, a girl who has hallucinations, and know that her whole family tree is cursed, yet when she meets Dresden, she can see him truly and not the image he gives to the other mortals.
The story is very engaging, dark and full of romance which is not rushed and feels realistic with more to come after the book's end. I loved the came appearances and I also wonder if the Strawman, another character, will get his own story.
Overall, this is a very well written story with a plot that doesn't go away easily.
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