What to read this weekend: An alien invasion as told by a body snatcher

These are some recently released titles we think are worth adding to your reading list. This week, we read Mira Grant's Overgrowth, a horror sci-fi novel about an alien invasion and the girl who tried to warn everyone about it, and the vampire apocalypse mini series, Vatican City.

Usually when aliens invade and start doing the whole body snatching thing, they don't go around telling everyone about it. Anastasia, aka Stasia, Miller seems to have missed that memo. The main character of Mira Grant's Overgrowth is an infiltrator from a race of plant-like aliens who came to Earth as a seed, stole the body of 3-year-old Anastasia and has been living as her ever since. And that's pretty much how she introduces herself to everyone she meets. Most people don't believe her, and she lives a relatively normal life. She grows up to ...