This World Is Not Yours

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

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 fiancee, 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.

©2024 Kemi Ashing-Giwa (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Interesting and easy listen. Minus the people melting.

The whole polycule stuff was interesting. It’s like if Solaris and Handmaid’s Tale lite were subsumed by gray slime.

Really Interesting in the End- Should have been Longer

Personally, I thought the narration was great, though a little lacking in emotion at some moments. The story was dry until the second half, and if this story had been extended out into a full novel- it would have been far better!!!