Deeply strange and surprisingly really good? It's... alright, so: ignore the blurb that says it's like The Hunger Games. It's actually a bit like Watership Down, but for bees, but also darker and more violent and alien but in a way that's just unshakably compelling. The synesthetic quality of the bees' world will have you almost understanding what it must be like to experience the world in scents and vibrations. I believed wholeheartedly in its entire premise from the first page to the bittersweet end. I stayed up late reading it and was grumpy at interruptions (like having to eat food) the next day while enraptured in the last chapter. It's dark and wild and good magic.