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The Last Beekeeper: Vespling Book 1 By Jared Gulian
The Last Beekeeper is a fictional account of Jim Parker, a beekeeper in a time of global bee crisis who rents out his bees to nearby farmers for pollination. The story is set on a small island in Lake Michigan. When someone begins to burn Jim’s beehives, along with the priceless animals and goods they contain, Jim goes looking for the perpetrator, which unintentionally leads him into a whole new world of peril and deception.
I occasionally watch horror movies, but I don’t do it very often because I don’t always find it frightening and it can occasionally be funny. According to me, it needs to walk a fine line between plausibility and monstrosity in order to be good, and Jared Gulian has done that perfectly.
Although the island setting of the book suggests that it is a haven away from more external problems, it also creates an environment that is isolated, making it challenging to leave. The urgency and desperation of a man determined to safeguard all he cares about are created by the fact that Jim, the main character of Gulian, has moved to this island in order to rebuild his life and protect his remaining family.
We are on the verge of the apocalypse with a view to watching it approaching us from the horizon when we combine this with the contemporary fear of genetic modification in a world that is struggling for access to fresh fruits and vegetables, some of the things we take for granted.
This book was fantastic. Gulian’s characters are convincing and well-drawn, and the small island setting is both cosy and confining. Jim is a wonderful person, and his worry threatens to consume him, but is he really wrong to be overprotective? Jim is desperately attempting to defend what he loves, but veering towards the obsessive.
Additionally, Gulian does not stress how monstrous the animals are that he recounts. I feel that the best storytellers give you just enough for you to be able to visualise the scene yourself and then their writing will propel you onward through the action so that the experience of reading their book is completely immersive, and that is what I got from this.
His narrative style is descriptive but not wordy, so you are not swamped with unnecessary detail. I was engrossed. A great book to read. I can’t wait for the second Vespling novel to be published.
About The Book
Jim Parker, a honeybee expert, has retreated to Gull Island in Lake Michigan with his teenage daughter after a terrible family tragedy. He longs to hide from an increasingly dangerous world.
In the midst of a Global Bee Crisis, bees everywhere are dying and the food supply teeters on the brink of collapse. Pollination now relies on powerful mega-corporations known as Beelords. Jim just wants to live out his days practicing traditional beekeeping at the edge of the woods.
But he soon discovers that this island is not the haven he once thought. For starters, his daughter absolutely hates it here. Then suddenly someone starts torching his beehives, people begin disappearing, and it seems an unknown threat is lurking in the woods.
When Jim finds something very peculiar in his remaining hives, he begins to unravel a mystery that is deeper, darker and more complex than he ever imagined. Now he’s not only fighting for the survival of his family, but for the very future of humankind.
The Review
The Last Beekeeper
9 Score
This book is a fast-paced, edge-of-your seat, frightening science fiction thriller. As an avid fan of Jared Gulian’s earlier book, An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World, I departed from my usual reading habits to find out what he might do with the seemingly improbable concept of a sci-fi thriller about a bee- keeper. This book is obviously well-researched as well as skillfully written. The author’s knowledge of bees and beekeeping allows him to write convincingly and draw us deeply into his dystopian tale of genetic engineering gone horribly wrong. At one particularly cliff-hanging moment, I actually felt a chill run down my spine as I turned the page, a physical sensation that I have never before experienced while reading a book.
PROS
- This book is a fast-paced, edge-of-your seat, frightening science fiction thriller.
- This is an enthralling tale. Gene recombination.
CONS
- The plot and writing are totally strange and unconvincing.
- The characters are so bad and weak.
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