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A brief dive into mycology and the questionable ethics scientific experimentation invites. It was all right, but too short to get attached to anyone, and too high level to satisfy my itch for creepy sci-fi.

While the blurb made it sound like a Crichton-esque dive into a plausible branch of near-term science, the book was unfortunately mostly tell-not-show in its writing. The translation was excellent, but parts of the book were difficult to follow, and more often than not daring escapes were handwaved in the narrative and exposition-dumped via dialog afterwards. Also, perhaps most unfortunately of all, the cover gives away the "twist."