Grass feels like it’s strongly in the vein of second wave feminism and it’s refreshing to read a book with strong female characters and critiques of machoism. There’s even tidbits like figures of authority with androgynous names that we later find out are women, a seemingly light point, it just doesn’t happen in other sci-fi!
Grass is let down by being too ordered in its storytelling. The plot is gripping but advances interminably to its logical conclusion - perhaps a highlight in a Christie novel but here I felt lacking.