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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

195 reviews

rebecamojica's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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jenny_d's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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acatastrophe's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

(from my personal reading journal, July 8, 2023)
This is a book I wouldn't have picked up if not for Jude's recommendation--he's pretty picky about scifi, so his tastes usually angle towards the uncommonly good. The Space Between Worlds focuses on a traverser, a woman selected from a lower-class background to move between alternate worlds on behalf of the elites. I've heard it billed as a queer book, but it's really about extraction, exploitation, and class, and a very good examination of power structures across many intersections.
Cara, the lead, is a high-volume traverser because of the many worlds in which she is dead (this universe operates on the No Doubles rule), but instead of being Caramenta, specially chosen on Earth Zero, she is Caralee of Earth 22, who survived when her double made an ill-fated jump. She finds that her boss is actually the brother of the despot who now rules her wasteland home and sets out to bring him down as payment for his crimes against the people of other worlds.
Cara is a unique narrator--she is both the most and least qualified person to be telling the story, and her perspective is extremely interesting. I also love a story that's all twists; every single story beat is unexpected, which should be exhausting, but is done so well it's just exciting. Very tightly written and well laid out. I can see why Jude loved it so much!
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avisreadsandreads's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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maryellen's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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vcatterson's review

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Great story, pretty deep characters. Lots of focus on intimate partner violence, from the perspective of the victim, which was appropriate within the context but still a bummer vibe. Ended very hopeful.
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salicer's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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apersonfromflorida's review

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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squibney's review

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The ending was slightly lackluster for how profound the rest of the book was, but it didn’t ruin it for me and I would definitely read this again. 
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sofipitch's review

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

5.0

Loved this book, it feels nearly perfectly put together. It has interesting allegory and metaphors, lots of actual real world commentary, occasionally beautiful prose AND has compelling characters and an interesting plot. Lots of books only manage having one of those. Cara's journey, seeing different versions of herself and other people and how it changed her is so good. It is also a book that is comfortable with uncertainty, the mentions of pushes and pulls between science and religion or even if you can predict what will happen make it so good. It is so well crafted and nuanced both in thoughts and character creation. I do wish Dell could have contributed more to the plot, she seemed a bit stuck in her role of love interest in the story and I really liked her dynamic with Cara, I wish she could have done more (given she's on the cover also lol)
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