"The Unworthy" is a story where I was constantly trying to figure out what was real and what was the lie the narrator was telling herself. This book has one of the most unreliable narrators I've ever seen, but it works to its advantage. You go into this story because brutally thrown into its world headfirst. Whatever you think the world is like, it's not. The slow reveal of how reality truly is within this story was honestly compelling. I found myself driven to finish the story just so I could understand. This story is told mostly as if you are a reader reading a journal of someone long gone, living in a very different existence than the one the reader is in. I didn't realize that the story is written in a journal style until I was about a quarter way into the book. Sometimes passages would randomly stop in the middle, and at first, I thought there was an issue with my copy of the book. Until I realized that no, that was a purposeful style choice. The story is told in stolen moments and snatches of lost memories that come back to the surface. suddenly Because of this, the stories can feel a bit disjointed at moments. Again, this appears to be a purposeful style choice rather than a side effect of bad writing. The story is fast and it was over all too soon. It felt like I only got a quick glance into a world both wholly unalike our reality while also being disturbingly close to our possible future, and I think that quick glance was all I could handle.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!