Bound by Honey: A Cozy Fantasy Romance

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Overall, this is a very cute book to read, and honestly would be a great start for a young reader getting into fantasy romance.

It fitted in my book reading schedule amazingly well as a lovely fun and captivating read after a run of much darker books. That’s all I did (switch box 3 and box 4), but I had to rig up a way to cut the comb that had been built UP from box 2.Also given how short the book was, there were many plot points brought up in the book that I would have loved to get more detail on, and I think the author has a lot of potential to expand upon this world if possible. If everything above is capped and they have no place to go with incoming nectar then they begin backfilling the brood nest and restricting the laying area for the queen. Now I'm suddenly not seeing either her or brood, the latter because of all the honey in the brood cells.

On May 26th, after I inspected Crocus and saw they had very little food and found eggs in the queen cups, Brian and I took a peek at Brian’s hive Squill. If you examine your hive and believe it is honey bound, you can help your bees by adding honey supers to the top of the hive or removing frames of honey and replacing them with empty drawn comb or foundation frames. It's my first year beekeeping and I've been working on establishing a hive from a package I installed in the middle of May. I love a little tease from the book before I read it and the scene with Sage and a baby dragon is by far my favorite from the whole book.The author could have cut out several sentences about her blushing or being sheepish and not used to praise had Sage just owned that she was amazing. So, another possibility is that your hive has already swarmed weeks ago, around the time you first noticed the queen cells, and the queen you spotted now is the replacement that is staying in the hive. It seemed a little too easy for everyone to like Sage, but I did appreciate that Finn remained grumpy for at least 35% of the book.

If your hive wants to swarm and you have a capped queen cell and the old Queen is present, then swarming is imminent, in the next day or two if the weather is good. I have at least 4 empty bars in their now, so I'm just hoping the queen hatches, mates and starts laying before they build those out and fill them with honey. There were a few points in the story where the writing wasn't great, or the characters were acting out of character that just didn't fit with the story's vibe. Although this queen had been laying with an amazing brood pattern just two weeks prior, she was now failing and the bees knew this from the beginning. The resolution is space, give them drawn empty frames, or move some of the honey frames up and give them foundation to draw.

After reading some of the experiences of beekeepers tearing apart combs I knew I wanted to avoid that. We didn’t realize we’d get any honey…and really didn’t want to take any…UNLESS there was an excess while a nectar flow was on. Squill’s queen was still there but not laying, so we left her in the hive and decided to try extracting 5 frames of capped and uncapped honey from the brood frames to give her one more chance to lay until we could get a new queen. The bees are bringing in honey so fast this year, they are just storing it in cells faster than the queen can lay eggs in them.