If you're like me and you're the type of reader who often finds themselves with a book in your hands thinking, "ah yeah, this one's going to mess me up real good", or maybe you've just read one too many romantasies and need something to rock your world instead, you should pick up 'Arborescence'. It explores the concept of a society who have moved forward so far into technology, they are ready to take root, become trees, and resign themselves back to nature, meanwhile following starkly regular people moving through their lives as best they can in the face of the world changing. It's gloomy, but meditative; therapeutic for our modern troubles. This book is a time capsule, confronting what it feels like to live through the turn of an era into unfathomable technological advancement, as we are now with AI -- and how nature will inevitably pull us back to earth.

A reflective book, told in vignettes, following a couple as they change and grow in the wake of a discovery that people are turning into trees - or are they?! Lots to unpack with this one, humanity vs AI, climate change, and hope. Not an action-packed novel, but reflective - which I ate right up!