A review by pandacat42
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

4.0

The swearing was a bit distracting and annoying. I know it is part of the characterization, and really it brings out some of the hostility in the characters. I really enjoyed this book for the most part. It deals with learning to grief and how teenage girls feel going through puberty and having a crush. I really like the fact that Lily is her own person. Really there is a lot to learn from this book about life. It pulls a person from their own naive world (assuming the reader hasn't experienced too much of the bad in the world) into the world of a girl who has seen a lot of the bad.