An alien invasion as instructed by a physique snatcher

Often when aliens invade and begin doing the entire physique snatching factor, they do not go round telling everybody about it. Anastasia, aka Stasia, Miller appears to have missed that memo. The primary character of Mira Grant’s Overgrowth is an infiltrator from a race of plant-like aliens who got here to Earth as a seed, stole the physique of 3-year-old Anastasia and has been dwelling as her ever since. And that is just about how she introduces herself to everybody she meets. Most individuals do not consider her, and he or she lives a comparatively regular life. She grows as much as be considerably awkward and, fittingly, is obsessive about Little Store of Horrors, however has a few good associates, a supportive companion and a pet cat (Seymour, after all), who she adores. Aliens, they’re identical to us.

The whole lot is flipped on its head when a scientist detects an extraterrestrial sign and Stasia acknowledges it because the signal that her folks have lastly come to launch the full-scale invasion she’s all the time been warning of. Overgrowth is an exhilarating sci-fi horror story that is additionally at instances lighthearted and humorous. It hooked me instantly and I used to be glad it is virtually 500 pages lengthy, as a result of I did not need to put it down.