Overgrowth by Mira Grant

Title: Overgrowth

Author: Mira Grant

Publisher: Tor Nightfire 2025

Genre: Science Fiction

Pages: 469

Rating: 2/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Winter - Speculative Fiction

Where I Got It: Library

*This is just a story. It can’t hurt you anymore.

Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her.

Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it’s already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia’s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.

What happens when you know what’s coming, and just refuse to listen?*

I was so disappointed in this book… I have loved Grant’s previous books, especially Drowning in the Deep, but this one was boring and lacked any punch or horror. I was pulled in by the comparison to Day of the Triffids and Annihilation. It is neither of those things. Instead, we get almost 400 pages of Anastasia warning of the invasion and people talking about how weird she is. That’s about it. The actual invasion seems super anti-climatic after all those pages. I wanted action. I wanted horror. Instead, this read like a young adult novel where the main character repeats how unlikeable they are and how people don’t understand them. I was thoroughly bored.

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