While there are a few reveals that are pretty easy to see coming, and while there is indeed plenty of action in the back half of the story, Johnson never takes the easy road. I was worried that’s where The Space Between Worlds would go.
But the reason I don’t spend a lot of time in that subgenre is that the first half is often fascinating, but once the reader gets enough information about what’s going on, all that’s left is a series of action sequences that feel hollow and perfunctory. And for those who love thrillers, this may not be a problem at all. Couple that with an interesting premise and a lot of uncertainty about exactly where the plot is going, and the first half of the book went by in what felt like no time at all.Ī little bit past the halfway point, however, I felt things starting to falter. The story is narrated in first-person, telling of Cara’s present with plenty of reminiscence to the past traumas that have shaped her life to this point, and her character is compelling enough to demand attention from the first chapter. But The Space Between Worlds goes far beyond the typical thriller, with several excellent characters and twice the depth. It’s a sci-fi thriller premise, but it’s a really intriguing sci-fi thriller premise. But when one job goes wrong, Cara is thrown into a fight for power far beyond what she signed up for. But her counterparts haven’t, and being dead in over 370 other worlds makes Cara the ideal candidate for a job traversing universes to bring back intelligence about ways her world could go. Cara, our heroine, grew up in a broken home in one of the poorest cities we see and has learned how to survive at all costs. The only catch is that no one can travel to a parallel world in which their counterpart is alive. The Space Between Worlds is set in a far future after the discovery of travel between parallel universes. I was hoping to read it before award nomination season ended, but though I ended up getting it late, I’m very glad I got it. Every single review I saw for The Space Between Worlds raves about it. I didn’t see too much hype for Micaiah Johnson’s debut–although it was enough to push my library hold to five months–but what it lacked in quantity, it made up for in quality.
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