Story Time: 'The Bees' by Laline Paull

Like wasps only less twatish

What you need to know: In a world where all stories seem to be rehashed versions of a story you heard last week (starring Rachel McAdams), this is actually pretty original!

The rest: So there's this bee right, only she's a special bee and she's supposed to be a cleaner bee. So some high up bee, they're called Sages, get's interested in her and puts her to work in the nursery, where she shouldn't be because she's a cleaner and they're unclean, but fuck it, because Sage's do what they want, right?

You actually get to learn shit loads about bees and if you didn't know before you'll know afterwards, bees can be fucking dicks! That's one of the most interesting things, just how dickish the bees are and how every bee knows but they all just put up with it because that's how it works. Accept, Obey, Serve - that's like they're mantra or something. 

Anyway, so back to Flora, that's her name, that cleaner bee I was on about. Turns out there's a lot she can do that she shouldn't be able to and it get's her some pretty sweet privileges but it also get's her in to some pretty hot water too and so you get super interested in whether she's gonna be okay or whether the dick bees are gonna fuck her up. It's super interesting. 

Oh, also, there's these male bees who are like the comedic relief because they're like some sort of clownish Shakespeare characters only more rapey and they run around talking about their "swords", but sword meaning their junk obviously and that's fucking hilarious.

So yeah, basically, this is some pretty good shit.

Verdict: Must read.