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Overgrowth

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By Mira Grant

Mira Grant became a staple of my reading with The Newsflesh series and Into the Drowning Deep. She has a history of writing great books with fantastic characters. She is not an author who is afraid to shock and push her readers’ boundaries. So, a book about an alien invasion, you know I am on board for that.

Anastasia Miller is a fabulous character, the perfect…um…person to build a story around. She is surrounded by a good and diverse cast of characters that really help to build up the story. She becomes a tangible character, living life with all of the hopes and challenges that one would expect.

Overgrowth builds nicely around Stasia and her entourage. The true nature of the aliens is slowly revealed; we have evil government agencies with baddies and everything. It was all going great, until it wasn’t.

I get that Grant was creating a new type of alien, and there is always a risk when you go out on a limb with something different. Personally, once the mothership arrived the story was no longer about the characters. I found that Grant spent too much time with the convoluted history of the alien race; the how and why of what was going on. The pace and focus of the story changed and my interest along with it.

Once in a while I don’t get the story I expect; it can be a good thing, but other times, not so much.

*3 Stars

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