A review by linkalipski
This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia García Freire

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The author’s style is unique: poetic and metaphoric while describing crude or unsophisticated scenes. Themes of repugnance, bodily fluids and dirtiness are intertwined with the sacred, innocent and delicate. Hence, the story is unique and weird yet still gripping. 

Reading, the first two chapters I thought it was going to be one of those ultra poetic but incomprehensible stories but I was wrong. I quickly understood what was going on and then I was hooked.

A lot is suggested rather than said, which is great, but I also wish for my unanswered questions to be solved. 

The ending is as tragic as the rest of the story but isn’t revenge in my opinion so much as hopeless defeat. Which makes for a reflective ending and forces us to think of injustices and pay back differently.