THE UNWORTHY
Agustina Bazterrica
If those who have given their life to God are not safe, what does that mean for the rest of us?
There are servants, there are auras, those that are spirits, those that are enlightened and those that wander.
And there are THE UNWORTHY.
It took quite a while to lay the groundwork for this short novel. The world-building supersedes the plot and takes up a majority of the novel. It felt like reading a prequel as if I were to expect a novel to come after.
I imagine Bazterrica has thought a lot about what the end of the world might look like. Each of her novels explores a dystopian world where there is a different hierarchy and rules for surviving are rethought. What you can’t imagine doing becomes everyday life.
If Bazterrica has created a world for her characters, the point of this one is to be a testament to faith. And what we know of faith is now perhaps forever changed after watching CONCLAVE.
“Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand-in-hand with doubt. If there was only certainty and no doubt, there would be no mystery. And therefore no need for faith.”
CONCLAVE (2024)
About the book…
I don’t know what I expected. I don’t know what I got.
Instead of reading THE UNWORTHY, it feels like I have summoned it. Like saying Mary Mary in the mirror three times and falling asleep playing the Ouija Board, only to wake up frozen with sleep paralysis. A dark figure leering over you.
It is not meant for this world.
And it never tried to be.
Thanks to Netgalley, Libro.fm, and Scribner for the advanced copies!
THE UNWORTHY…⭐️⭐️⭐️
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