This World Is Not Yours, Kemi AshingGiwa
This World Is Not Yours, Kemi AshingGiwa
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This World Is Not Yours

Author: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Unabridged: 4 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2024


Synopsis

This World Is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S. A. Barnes's 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.

About Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Kemi Ashing-Giwa was born and raised in Southern California, where she grew up on a steady diet of sci-fi and fantasy. She has an undergraduate degree in integrative biology and astrophysics from Harvard University and is currently a PhD student in the Earth and planetary sciences department at Stanford University. She is the author of the novel The Splinter in the Sky and the forthcoming novella This World Is Not Yours.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Greekchoir on March 06, 2024

This World Is Not Yours reads like a Reddit AITA post. My (33F) partner (35F) has been assigned a husband (32M) to help repopulate our remote settlement outpost on a distant planet after it was sabotaged by a rival political entity. I also have a new husband (34M) who is my best friend, but it's not......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on April 07, 2025

A recently inhabited planet filled with a semi-sentient all consuming goo, space politics and what all goes into sustaining life on a foreign planet, toxic relationships, and polyamory! Mix all that together, and you have the sci-fi horror-lite novella that is This World Is Not Yours. This has some......more

Goodreads review by Justine on October 24, 2024

The reviews are mixed, but I liked this one. It’s a great mix of horror elements. Are the people the frightening part with all their weird baggage and uncontrolled desires, or is it the indigenous goo that takes care of the planet in an (to human thinking) coldly indiscriminate way? One of my persona......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on October 01, 2024

Womp womp. Somehow this is actually a book about a toxic relationship and not a sci-fi horror at all. It should be marketed differently. The whole time we are just reading petty arguments back and forth between these characters. I couldn’t believe each time we just kept going back to the same things......more

Goodreads review by Lois on September 05, 2024

This audiobook was made available for me to listen to and review by Kemi Ashing-Giwa, HighBridge Audio, and NetGalley. This audiobook is narrated by Catherine Ho. Catherine sets a creepy atmosphere with her narration of this haunting story. This is told from multiple points of view, and the narration......more