Honestly, I thought the Behemoth pair dragged a bit - I suspect it might have worked better as a more tightly-edited single volume. (Sue Burke's Semiosis trilo

Honestly, I thought the Behemoth pair dragged a bit - I suspect it might have worked better as a more tightly-edited single volume. (Sue Burke's Semiosis trilogy is worth a read, too, in a similar evolutionary SF vein.)