Overgrowth by Mira Grant
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This one was a bit of a mixed bag for me. A lot of the novel hit a lot of cool notes, especially the start, that was part-way Seanan and part-way Grant-Parasite, and then it was fun with its subtexts, hating-humans for perfectly valid social reasons, etc.

After the signal and the "oh crap everything she said was real" bits, I kinda had a bit of a problem. It wasn't bad, per se, but I just felt like the wish-fulfillment "oh, all her friends really are cool people" thing didn't actually land right. That, or post-signal, I kinda hated the vilification of NASA. One or the other.

The last half of the novel got pretty interesting, tho, and especially so if you hate humanity.

So, yeah, this is a hate-humanity book. Sometimes that's just fine. And if we go about it by way of Little Shop of Horrors, then so be it.

Go, Audrey Two!



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