Lena's Reviews > The Secret Life of Bees

It was a good book, but too sweet for my taste, just like the honey around which the story revolves. The plot and characters seemed to me very calm as for those tumultuous times of the civil rights movement. But I guess it's just another way of showing how people's lives were affected by those events. The author though chose a fascinating way of talking about racial issues: an unusual eye-opening experience of a white girl living in small black community. Here she's different and needs to prove herself to be treated as equal.
Overall good, but I couldn't attach to any of the characters...