The Last Beekeeper

De: Julie Carrick Dalton

Narrado por: Dylan Moore

Julie Carrick Dalton's The Last Beekeeper is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth versus power, and the triumph of hope in the face of despair.

"Fans of Delia Owens will swoon to find their new favorite author.” (Hank Phillippi Ryan)

It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind—find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated.

There, Sasha is confronted with a group of squatters who have claimed the quiet, idyllic farm as a way to escape the horrific conditions of state housing. While she feels threatened by their presence at first, the friends soon become her newfound family, offering what she hasn't felt since her father was imprisoned: security and hope. Maybe it's time to forget the family secrets buried on the farm and focus on her future.

But just as she settles into her new life, Sasha witnesses the impossible. She sees a honeybee, presumed extinct. People who claim to see bees are ridiculed and silenced for reasons Sasha doesn't understand, but she can't shake the feeling that this impossible bee is connected to her father's missing research. Fighting to uncover the truth could shatter Sasha's fragile security and threaten the lives of her new-found family—or it could save them all.

Sasha's journey is a meditation on forgiveness and redemption and a reminder to cherish the beauty that still exists in this fragile world.

Also by Julie Carrick Dalton:
Waiting for the Night Song

A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books.

What a great story

Thoroughly enjoyed this read. Exciting and believable story. I’ll be sending it to both my daughter and my mother!

Great narrator

Loved this story. I have had the hardcover for awhile and had not read it. I am very happy with the audio version and will look for more from this author

So creative and engaging!

Dalton does an excellent job of weaving a tale that not only entertains but slips in knowledge of the natural world in a way we appreciate. A good listen!

Hidden truth

Loved how the hidden truth came full circle. Too bad the recording was choppy in some areas.

It could happen

This is a dystopian story that seems believable and not in the too distant future. The characters are interesting enough that I might like to find out what happened next, but I’m not sure the rest of the story is developed enough to carry second book. The narration was terrible, so painfully slow that I had to speed it up, which I never do. There were a lot of areas where the pronunciations were clipped and robotic and so unlike the way people write and speak that it made me wonder if it was created using AI (apparently not). Overall okay, but think I might have enjoyed reading it more given the bad narration.