#overgrowth

No posing at the mall today, no trips to the beach, and no chilling out - we're gonna work in the garden.

When it comes to overgrown plants, Dad means business.

Stasia spending 400+ pages saying genocide is bad and valuing Graham’s humanity and how she would never allow him to lose it in the face of the alien invasion but then becoming plant Bella Swan towards the end by drinking yummy human blood and suddenly doing a 180 going “lol actually genocide is totally fine, get devoured by the evil alien flower so they can make a shitty plant copy of you and we can fuck for all eternity” Like, she made it clear before that the plant people are only copies and just because you can implement the original’s memories in them it still means the original (that she claims to love more than her life) gets killed. But, nope, she went "But I still want to fuck, so get devoured already!"

The aliens refusing to abort the invasion because the humans didn’t say “Please”. Like, they sent hundreds of thousands of seeds to Earth and you expect me to believe that not a single person went “Please don’t invade Earth”? Like, EVER? I know for a fact that there is ALWAYS at least one kid who absolutely takes the shit serious that their weird playmate says because I was that kid. I was the kid who told the weird girl in kindergarten who threatened she would one day rule the world and destroy all people “Please don’t do that?” and she was “Okay, I’m chill now.” (You’re welcome, by the way.)

The stupid anti-vegan jokes every couple of pages. They weren’t funny the first time, and they sure as fuck weren’t funny the other 15 times after that.

Constantly referencing horror novels, like, omg, if you write a book about evil blood drinking killer plants from outer space everyone knows it’s a reference to Little Pet Shop of Horrors, The Body Snatchers, Day of the Triffids, the list goes on... If you throw in that giant spider OF COURSE WE WILL KNOW IT’S AN "IT" REFERENCE, YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL US. This book is a peak example of “Writer thinks her audience is too stupid to Get It(TM)”.

Sitting and waiting 🪶