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Genre:
Science Fiction
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Aliens
Butch / Femme
Dark Romance
Interracial / Multicultural Relationship
Loss / Grieving / Widow
Married or Established Couple
Menage / Polyamory
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
Nerdy / Geeky
Quirky Characters
Self-Discovery
Slow Burn
Heat Level:
Fade to Black (sex scenes are mostly implied and use euphemistic language)
Archetypes:
Astronaut / Space Explorer
STEM Profession / Scientist
Geographic Location:
Space / Other Planet or Universe
Setting:
Jungle / Rainforest
Military Base
Other Planet
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Asexual / Demisexual
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Femme
Butch / Stud
Protagonist Identity:
Asian
Biracial / Multiracial
Black / African American
Trigger/Content Warning:
Graphic Violence
This World Is Not Yours
By Kemi Ashing-Giwa
There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.
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.