Chapter One Hundred Ninety-Two: The Wedding Bees

When The Wedding Bees: A Novel of Honey, Love, and Manners by Sarah-Kate Lynch came across the circulation desk at work, I figured it might make good light reading for an upcoming trip.  I didn't end up having time to read in while on vacation, but I really enjoyed it when I got around to it!  In addition to being well-written, it offers a fun (if implausible-seeming) New York City apartment building as its main setting, and the sort of loveably quirky and flawed cast of characters that I generally appreciate.  I think the subtitle sort of sums up the book, in which the well-mannered Sugar Wallace, an urban beekeeper with a knack for making friends and caring for neighbors, finally--with the help of her new friends and her bees--confronts her past romantic and social disasters.  It's not the most unpredictable plot, but I appreciated Sugar for her kindness to others and, as you've surely noticed by now, I'm a sucker for a happy story, so if you're looking for fun fiction with a heartwarming heroine, I'd definitely suggest The Wedding Bees.