Thank you to NetGalley and Tor Nightfire for letting me read an e-ARC of This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa! This novella releases September 10, 2024, so there’s plenty of time to request this from your local library.

We meet our main female characters, Vinh and Amara, who are married and have escaped negative family relations to colonize a planet, New Belaforme. With them, they’ve brought Amara’s childhood best friend, Jesse. There is one major not-quite lifeform that has presented itself on New Belaforme that remains an enigma to all: the Gray. It appears to consume anything that it deems a threat to the planet or its survival. Originally, this means it destroys or “cleanses” anything invasive, but it hasn’t harmed any human hosts, so the colonies continue their work.