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...
Author: Thomas Harris
Series: Hannibal Lecter #1
Published: 1981, my edition May 1990
Length: 454 pages
Warnings: Everything. Gore. Sex. Not for little ones.
Source: bought
Other info: There's lots of films and spinoffs of this series. You probably know The Silence of the Lambs. There's also Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.
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Review: There's a killer on the loose and Will Graham, FBI man who's good at profiling mad people, as well as visualizing the murder, must find him. Wouldn't be so bad if last time he'd gone on a madman hunt, he'd almost been killed by Hannibal Lecter, and wanted to retire. But seeing as this guy is killing a lot of people, and
I read this because I watched Hannibal and quite enjoyed it, and, as always with book to screen adaptations, I try and read the source material.
I like that this book is very plot focused, as opposed to the TV show (which I know is very very different because that's a prequel and Red Dragon hasn't happened yet and is a TV show and totally different) which is very character focused. I like the plot focus, especially by the end, when the plot really gets along quickly, which is nice, especially when the start is slower.
you feel for the characters. Well, Will Graham and the killer. Guy had an awful back story. Will Graham, you feel bad for because of the whole empathizing wholly with killers driving him insane, and I liked him, though I'm not sure how much Hugh Dancy looking like a kicked puppy influenced that. Hannibal Lecter, despite being the guy the series is named after, doesn't appear much in Red Dragon, but what we see of him is intriguing.
The psychology aspect is interesting to start with, but after a little while, you do want it to just speed up a bit. Some parts of this were creepy, in both good ways and bad ways.
Overall: Strength 3 tea to a good mystery thriller horror thing, that wasn't quite I was expecting.
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