The Space Between Worlds: The riveting Sunday Times bestseller

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Ok, I'm legitimately mad that goodreads has - lost? deleted? who knows? - this review. I LOVED this book and pulled together a bunch of words that somehow made sense in describing why it was so great.

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I liked many elements of the story - the ones that always draw me in - how nature and nurture and circumstances can change a person's life path. But a lot of potential here was left unexplored. The novel is too long for what it is. It doesn't quite work structurally - there are some good twists, but no big climax. The villain never materialized as a major force. The story left me wanting.deep down, I don’t want to fit in. I don’t want to look like I belong there, because one day I want to pretend I never did. (c) Another point of contention is Dell and the relationship she had with Cara, which “developed” mostly in the last part of the book. Again, there was nothing natural and interesting to read about there. It all came about in a very forced manner to wrap things up and I never felt like I got the sense of who Dell was as a person, separate from Cara’s characterisation of her. There is a lot going on in this journey, but the pace and movement of The Space Between Worlds are masterfully done, especially for a debut novel. The story is consistently engaging as Cara works through the various transformations and challenges of her life as a traverser and the ending, both in matters of character growth and plot development, is surprising and satisfying. a b Heath, Will (9 November 2020). "The Space Between Worlds review: Sci-fi with the multiverse done right". New Scientist . Retrieved 1 October 2023.

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Cara was actually quite likeable but I wasn’t convinced that she knew what she wanted, and because of this her character arc felt a bit disconnected from the plot. There are three hundred and eighty-two. Worlds that used to resonate but have gone silent are included on the test too.”So the story follows Cara who is one of the few people who can travel between the multiverses. People on Earth Zero can access 380 other versions of Earth but only if their doppelganger on that world is dead. Cara's other selves are very good at dying. So much so that that there are only eight of her selves left. So when one of those eight is murdered she gets concerned.

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I really did love the set up for this book and the idea of how the multiverses worked and how they were used by the major corporation. The science has no real explanations about how it works but I was okay with that. I really enjoyed the limitations on multiverse travel. The main character, Cara, was fun and I loved the hints of mystery about her from the very beginning. Also, there was a lot of woe is me internal monologue from Cara, about her being an Ashtowner who will never fit in and who will be looked down upon because she is not one of them and how her life is so so so hard compared to the people who live in Wiley City. And that whole spiel she carried on and on about felt refreshing and new the first time or two, but then it just felt egocentric and selfish. We weren’t so much shown her woes as we were told about them. She wasn’t a good character that was for sure l. She was flawed and towards the end she realised this and went onto this redemption arc of sorts which again : Rushed. a b drbialkowski (29 December 2020). "The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson: A Review". The Roar . Retrieved 5 October 2023. It would reek of gratitude. And maybe she’d be insecure, think she was less than me. I don’t want to make Dell feel like that, don’t want to make her feel the way she makes me feel. (c) A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

Recently, I have been reading Philip Pullman’s Daemon Voices which is a collection of essays on storytelling. But wait this is a review for The Space Between Words? Hold your horses. I’m getting to it. There is an essay in Daemon Voices about writing fantasy where he mentions that authors of fantasy need to focus on the path, not the worldbuilding. And I could not agree more! I don’t connect with extensive worldbuilding. I think the concept is pretty cool, especially in how effectively it ties race and class to multiverse travel. In The Space Between Worlds, you can only travel to a world where your counterpart is dead, so basically exclusively people who happen to have been born in places/families at risk and manage to survive against all odds are recruited to be traversers (multiverse travelers). Cara's counterparts are dead on 372 worlds due to neglect, gang violence, etc., which makes her a perfect traverser. Conceptually, The Space Between Worlds has a lot of potential. In this version of parallel universes, you can only travel to a different one if your counterpart is already dead. Enter Cara, who has died in most other worlds, so she's able to travel between them. Yep, I can totally get behind that. But that was pretty much it for things I enjoyed, and it was only a very small part of the story.