The characters were thinly developed, and I never got attached to any of them so I never felt for them at the end.  It wasn’t funny; it wasn’t clever; it wasn’t emotional – or insightful – It just didn’t work for me.  The one thing that WAS interesting to me was the mention of a Celtic custom  (known in other parts of Europe, too) in which you “talk to your bees.”   You always tell the bees when someone is born, dies, comes or goes—because if you don’t keep them informed, they’ll fly away.  Important events were told to the bees such as marriages, births and deaths. If the bees weren’t told about a death event, they wouldn’t go into mourning and it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees would leave the hive, not produce enough honey for the beekeeper or even die.  Now that  was a cool tidbit of knowledge!