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Title: Well written Shmaltz
Review: I loved Bees and I am so disappointed! Although the imagery is wonderful, it gets old after awhile. I got tired of the protagonist wallowing in all her cliched 40 something feelings of despair and emptiness. Erotic? I don't think so. It was like reading Danielle Steele at her shmaltziest.I was irritated that the protagonist's plain old honest to goodness lack of maturity was portrayed as soul searching, and that a suicide would be viewed as anything other than a coward's way out. Because I like to believe that there are some elimental truths about life and spirituality, this story completely rubbed me the wrong way. All the main characters were victimized by one thing or another and I would have liked to see at least one of them realize that, as an adult, being a victim is a choice.
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