Title: The Space Between Worlds
Author: Micaiah Johnson
Publisher: HodderScape
Edition: ARC
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An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.
There are reasons Cara has died.
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There are reasons Cara has lived.
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First, the setting is in a multiverse. How refreshing and intriguing it is to read a book that talks about a multiverse. We don’t quite see and read books with this kind and setting. That’s why it makes the reading more fun.
The idea of multiple versions of Earth is strikingly beautiful. How awesome it is to see Earth in different images. How I wish we can also see Earth in different ways. I wonder if this also exists in our world. How fun can we see and meet our loved ones, new people, and even the other version of ourself in different time and place? Just think how wonderful that may be.
Characteristics. In the story, Cara, the protagonist is a traverser, a person who travels in parallel worlds. With it, we saw the different personalities and versions of each character in the different Earths.
We often imagine what if this person’s attitude is like this. What will happen and what could be the outcome. With the story’s idea, we only did not imagine but saw that there are lots of versions of the same person. That with it, how we wish to see more of this version of him rather than the other bad versions of him. Or we wish to see this bad version of him rather than the good version of himself.
The setting is intricately well-written. We saw not just a different character but also a different class in our society. That whenever we go, there are still prejudices that are happening within the classes. We say that some don’t mind the classes, but in the book, we see that the differences in classes impacted the way how society deals with the other characters. That no matter what we do we can’t erase the norms that we grew up in.
To wrap it up, The Space Between Worlds is a thirst-quenching story about survivability in a harsh and political world.
MY RATING:
4 OUT OF 5 STARS
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