A review by trips
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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

4.0

This book has an amazing premise that really hooked me in. The prose is beautiful and the worldbuilding is fantastic. Multiverse traversing is possible, and offers a variety of desirable information to gather from the multiple worlds. But the catch, you can't traverse to a world and survive if your counterpart on that world is alive. So people are hired as traversers who were born in, to put it bluntly, conditions where survival is bleak, because their counterparts are most often dead in many of the other worlds.

The first 50% of this book is a great read, I couldn't put it down. Unfortunately, I can't say as much towards the second half. The plot begins to meander as you can tell where the story is going and things get much slower. 
It was also frustrating that there was what I was hoping to be a compelling relationship between Cara and Dell, but I personally didn't feel like got touched on enough. Cara thinks about Dell a lot but Dell isn't actually present with Cara all that much, so I didn't really feel the connection or chemistry between the two. 

Overall this story has extremely interesting concepts in a world I'd be happy to revisit, it just fell flat for me in a few area. I would certainly look out for this authors next book!
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