Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel Genre: YA Paranormal Release Date: September 4th 2018 Entangled Teen Summary: “ Beauty and the beast like you’ve never imagined! ” — New York Times bestselling author Pintip Dunn 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 does...
Woah. It's the end of a year. That went stupidly fast. First off...how did my resolution keeping go? 1. Read at least 25 books on my kindle. Achieved! 2. Read at least 30 books from my physical pile. Achieved! 3. Write reviews quicker. Achieved through some parts of the year. 4. Read review copies on time. Achieved a couple of times, mainly failed. 5. Read 200 books as part of the Goodreads Challenge. Review at least half of them. Failed. 6. Read at least one British book a month as part of Feeling Fictional's British Books challenge. No idea-stopped keeping track. 7. Housekeeping round here! Achieved! 8. Change the desktop theme! Achieved! I don't like it though...might have another go. Edit: said that, then spent the next thirty minutes changing it. Do you like it? I still need to sort out the colours and sidebars and everything, but I think it's a much cleaner look now. Also, let me know if the fonts work or not for you. 9. Comment on blogs more regula...
