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The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
5.0

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for access to the e-arc of this title. 
I was super excited to read this as I really vibed with Tender is the Flesh. This did not disappoint! Agustina Bazterrica's writing style is literal perfection, Insight into human behaviour and response to extreme circumstances is mind blowing, and the impact a short narrative can have on the reader is proven. 
I ended up reading this after the pub date so was able to buy the audio from Libro.fm and the narrator Imani Jade Powers did a great job of reading this nameless pov narrative. I would recommend this to any reader that enjoys a dystopian narrative that has a religious like thread through it. It is a single pov but what is interesting is that I felt like I understood as much about the other characters than I did about the pov character. This is a thought provoking exploration into how mysogeny would survive a human existence altering event, like a cockroach. Pervasive lies are accepted and the survival of female bodies is an intense experience throughout. I want everyone to read this... but also want everyone to go in expecting to find it emotionally maddening and challenging.