She’s been through a lot and has endured both physical and emotional abuse. The worldbuilding is really interesting and provokes reflection on the divides in our own society.Īt first, I didn’t gel with the protagonist, Cara, but she grew on me during the course of the book. Cara is from Ashtown but lives and works in Wiley City, so we get an interesting perspective on the lives of people in both locations and their attitudes and prejudices. The novel explores privilege and power in a world divided between those who live in the city and those who live outside it. It strikes an excellent balance between being thought-provoking and entertaining. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but this twisty novel took me on a journey I wasn’t expecting. The idea of multiverses and doppelgangers drew me to this book. The Space Between Worlds is an impressive debut. What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined–and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.

Now she can pretend she’s always lived in the city she grew up staring at from the outside, even if she feels like a fraud on either side of its walls.īut when one of her eight remaining doppelgangers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret. Now she’s got a new job collecting offworld data, a path to citizenship, and a near-perfect Wiley City accent. And she’s reaping the benefits, thanks to the well-heeled Wiley City scientists who ID’d her as an outlier and plucked her from the dirt.

The multiverse business is booming, but there’s just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive.Įnter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying–from diseases, from turf wars, from vendettas they couldn’t outrun.īut on this earth, Cara’s survived. Publishing Info: August 2020 by Hodder & Stoughton (Illumicrate edition)ĬARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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