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This World is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S.A. Barnes' space horror and Cassandra Khaw's beautiful but macabre worlds. An action-packed, inventive novella about a toxic polycule consumed by jealousy and their attempts to survive on a hostile planet. After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse. The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a “self-cleaning” mechanism that New Belaforme’s scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray. As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself. There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.
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3.5/5
i enjoyed the sci-fi horror aspect of this (as everyone who pitched that part for fans of annihilation predicted)
following toxic characters who behave like the ones in this book do is always hit or miss for me.
for the most part i think it worked here.
i think what brought this down for me was how one character was utilized in the story i feel we could’ve gotten more out of them or their part shouldn’t have been there at all.
as with most stories i could always use more indulgence in the horror aspect.