The Space Between Worlds

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The Space Between Worlds is a concept album that follows the story of a huntress who travels the infinite metaphysical worlds brought into being by the dreams of humankind. In these realms, she encounters a dream eater which threatens to unravel the fabric of reality by devouring dreamers and destroying the dimensional gateways.

that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else. (c)I then want to heap praise on it for keeping so much focus on the same sets of characters that our main character has always been interacting with, showing a lot of subtlety and flexibility with the greater tale. But then, there's a lot of that in multi-universal novels, too. Or any novel. This still does a fine job that remains interesting to the end. Cara, as our protagonist, I found was extremely concrete and three-dimensional. She has her flaws, being extremely stubborn but she also carries her own personal traumas with her. Cara explores her history with being physically and emotionally abused and I couldn't help but one, feel for her but also understand her on a deeper level as someone who was emotionally abused. Cara goes THROUGH IT in this story but I can't help but feel proud of her and proud of the life she has made for herself. Cara's younger sibling Esther lived in Ashtown in the Rurals, an area all about "charity, piety and religion". Esther was warm and generous, all that was good. Could she become ruthless? With that territory comes a complicated tale of identity: Cara’s entire existence is a traumatic one, given her entry into the new world, her efforts to fit in with her co-workers and family, along with the knowledge that in most worlds, she’s died in horrific ways because of the systematic ways of the worlds that she inhabits. If I had to classify it, I'd say it was kind of a YA multiverse Mad Max for people of color. I'm all for finding badass brown gals to relate to in my books. However, this one didn't ring true. No sonorous tone, but rather an awful clanging with each new odd name (Nik Nik?) or contrived political hurdle.

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) I'm of two minds on this book. I want to heap a ton of praise on it for being an amusing multi-universal tale that reminds me of the DC universe and Sliders in how many Earths there are, but that's old-school stuff.Cara's "pulls" to different Earths were managed by her handler, Dell. Dell and Cara used wit and/or sarcasm in their communiques. Dell was a product of privilege. She lived in a high tower on the 80th floor. Cara's dwelling was below, on the 30th floor, where no sun was visible. Dell was dressed to the nines, Cara was simply attired. Tensions developed...feelings...unfulfilled desires. 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. Yes, supposedly they all confess like that AND they use fireworks to cover it up but has anyone ever heard fireworks? Let's just highlight that it's really challenging to get a firework blast cover whole phrases reliably. Several syllables - likely but confessing, this, Caralee, are you out of your anyworldly mind? Adam Bosch, the founder of the Eldridge Institute had discovered a way to see into other universes, a way to retrieve intel from worlds with a slight frequency shift from that of Earth Zero. To collect this important data, "disposable people" were needed as traversers who were pulled from one world and forced into another for the purpose of data collection. Out of 380 compatible worlds, Cara was still alive on 8. She could only be sent to worlds where her doppelganger had died. "With the exception of some of the traversers, we are stunningly expendable". To survive means to strive for permanent citizenship in Wiley City. Having traversed more than any other Eldridge employee, she was well on her way to this goal. At least when we were poor she was original, painting murals on the concrete with the same paste she used to dye her hair. (c) They were supposed to be poor. And yet pain walls with hair dye paste? Imagine painting one's walls with hair dye - wouldn't that be wasteful (if not impractical?)

The Space Between Worlds opens on Cara, who is “traversing” into another dimension to collect information for her employer, the Eldridge Corporation. This extraordinary task is routine for Cara, who is at the top of her field due to her—or more precisely her multidimensional selves’—aptitude towards dying. This skill is important because, by some anomaly of physics or the mysterious god Nyame depending on who you ask, the only way to travel to another universe and survive is if your other self in that universe is already dead. Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds is a science-fiction novel centered on Cara who travels to parallel universes. However, there are rules to traveling to different worlds. No one can travel to a world where they are still alive. This is good news for Cara because she is dead on most of the other worlds; therefore, she can travel to almost all of the other worlds. However, Cara is harboring a secret, and she discovers the secrets of others. The overall rating: we start at 5 stars since I loved this one and finished it and enjoyed it a lot (even with all my grumbling!). The Space Between Worlds centers on Cara, a young woman who works as a 'traverser', someone who is able to travel to an Earth in a parallel universe. Travel is only possible if the traveler is already dead on the destination Earth. Due to growing up in a dystopian wasteland, most versions of Cara are already dead, making her uniquely able to traverse to numerous worlds. [1] Cara refers to poor and disadvantaged people like herself as "trash people". [2] Set in the future and reminiscent of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones, this novel dramatizes a story of vengeance, warfare and the quest for power.At times, the book is reminiscent of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Earth, and at others, it is closer to Luiza Sauma’s Everything You Ever Wanted.

This book felt like an unedited first draft to me, it wasn’t clear whether the author knew where the story was going or not. She needs my absence more than anything. A witness to the shame makes it worse, even if it’s a friend. (c) A compelling stand-alone debut that will leave readers thrilled, thoughtful, and anticipating the author’s next book. He thinks if I study the figures and look for patterns the way analysts do, I’ll be valuable to the company for more than my mortality rate. (c) The book explores a lot of exciting possibilities about alternative realities, but it soon becomes clear that exploration and world-building on a multiversal scale isn’t its goal. Instead, it is a surprisingly intimate novel about facing down one’s demons. It muses on questions of identity, nature vs nurture and the consequences of our actions.

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Cara, who grew up in the dangerous conditions of Ashtown, a desert empire/suburban slum which Johnson describes as “not so loosely based on California’s Mojave Desert where [she] was raised,” can travel almost all of the 382 discovered universes. This skill makes her valuable and allows her a level of wealth and comfort in the walled city that abuts her home, but cannot fundamentally change her place within society. Despite a certain level of access and fame, she remains a tool of larger corporate interests and inescapably of her childhood home, Ash. oh, interesting! that's a fun coincidence then, lol. so, what do you think she was seeing then, if not the WBW? like...force heaven or something?