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I have read five volumes of this series, and really like the story. The art is fantastic and reading it for the art alone would be a good reason. This is the story of the letter bees. There is a society that is caught in a caste system, and people are scattered around the world. The main city of the wealthy has an artificial sun, and it houses the beehive, where the letter bees congregate to deliver mail (they are the postmen of the world). One of the young letter bees was found years ago with postage and was an actual letter (apparently, with enough postage, you can deliver anything!) and he grew up wanting more than anything to become a bee himself, following the footsteps of his hero, Guache Suade who is the bee who delivered him. Years later, he makes his way to the city and tries to become a bee but mysteriously, Guache Suade is no longer a bee, and has vanished. The other main part of the series are the fights with enormous armored insects that populate the land, and you need a special piece of amber and some kind of weapon, and when you fire the weapon it uses pieces of your heart, so you have to be careful not to use too much. When delivering letters, you may run into one or several insects!Great series. I can't wait for volume five to be published!
My overall feeling on this was "meh". While I can appreciate the originality of the setting (an all dark world where light is only for the rich and powerful), the characters, monsters, and details of the letter bee world never really grabbed me. By the end I was just skimming it. Its not really an action packed story, but the characters are not very strong. So in the end, I'm not really sure who this book is supposed to appeal to. I wont be getting the next volume.
J'ai beaucoup aimé ce premier tome. Je suis curieuse de découvrir la suite!
This was AMAZING!!!Further review to follow later because I'm hungry now:-/
Odd but cute...