This book is just so incredibly rich: layer upon layer of intricate worldbuilding that envelops you from page one. When one of her few remaining doppelgängers suffers an unexplainable death, Cara finds herself enmeshed in an even stranger new world brimming with dangerous secrets.
Charged with braving the terrifying void that separates each world from the next, Cara collects crucial data to share with her employer, attempting to forge a meaningful life for herself-which, for someone from the wastelands, mostly means just staying alive. The catch? One can only step foot onto another world if their resident counterpart has already died, making her a natural prodigy, given her particular talent for dying on hundreds of other worlds. And is there any better way to combat daily existential despair and perpetual grief, than by sinking your teeth into a world that is not your own? This is what The Space Between Worlds offers: a way out, and a breathtaking, heart-pounding way in.Ĭara is a traverser, someone who can travel between the multiverses. I received a digital review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.This pandemic and the requisite quarantine have compelled me to do a lot of soul searching, and I know I’m not the only one. This novel held my interest and the audiobook, narrated by Nicole Lewis, is nicely done.ĬW: descriptions of prior domestic violence and terror visited upon various characters. One of the interesting facets of this book is the implicit racism Cara has faced and escaped, and the raw nature of socioeconomic stratification in her homeworld.
Her visit there and return home unleashes a powerful chain of events. Her doppelganger has faked her death, and her net of relationships in that world is opposite to that in her own world. But when she is assigned a “pull” to visit a new world she discovers that the information that she is dead in that world is incorrect. It makes her a valuable traveler if only she can stay alive.
The Space Between Worlds offers an interesting view of the multiverse, in which your oppressor in one world could be your savior in another, while secrets can threaten to tear all the worlds apart.Ĭara is a young woman who travels or visits various worlds by virtue of the fact that her doppelgangers are dead in most of them.
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