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Semiosis by Sue Burke
3.0

this book contains some of the most extraordinarily dry prose i have ever read; it has almost no variation in sentence structure or figurative language.

despite that, i read it quickly—the plot’s that good. a sapient, symbiotic plant is seriously one of the best alien sci-fi concepts i’ve encountered, and it’s executed well. i was also drawn in by the way the colonists didn’t pine for earth, but adapted to their environment, and focused on it.

tl;dr if you’re willing to slog through the prose, this is worth a read on a conceptual basis.