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Book Review: EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE by Sarah Maria Griffin

Cover of Eat the Ones You Love, by Sarah Maria Griffin, with an odd-looking plant with one blue eye, and a brown eye within a Venus flytrap-looking leaf.

The synopsis for Sarah Maria Griffin’s Eat the Ones You Love would understandably invoke thoughts of Little Shop of Horrors for most people. I also kept thinking about Sue Burke’s Semiosis trilogy, not in terms of the plot, but in the sentient plant character and point-of-view perspective.

Book Review: Root Rot, by Saskia Nislow

Cover of Root Rot, by Saskia Nislow, featuring what looks like a human circulatory system except composed of plants, roots, and vines, surrounded by fungi, worms, and other creepy-crawlies.

“After all, it’s so much easier and pleasanter to think that everything must be fine, and it’s one’s perceptions that are skewed, rather than the situation; surely, if something were wrong, one of The Adults would step in and fix it.”