An alien invasion as informed by a physique snatcher

Normally 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 principle 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 imagine her, and she or he 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 mates, a supportive companion and a pet cat (Seymour, in fact), who she adores. Aliens, they’re identical to us.

Every little thing is flipped on its head when a scientist detects an extraterrestrial sign and Stasia acknowledges it because the signal that her individuals 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 straight away and I used to be glad it is nearly 500 pages lengthy, as a result of I did not need to put it down.