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The Space Between Worlds

"Rage is a dirty fuel, but it burns hotter than grief ever could." 

 Cara has died on nearly every Earth in the multiverse. Bad news for the other versions, but good news for her because it makes her the perfect candidate for multiverse travel. She leaves behind her life in the wastes of the rurals for a fancier one in Wiley City. This new life comes with a shiny apartment, an important job at Eldridge Institute with an attractive co-worker, a decent wage, and a chance at citizenship. However, when Cara uncovers a dark secret on another Earth she is willing to risk her life and jeopordize all she's worked for to bring the truth to surface. 

  The Space Between Worlds is Micaiah Jonhson's first novel as well as my August Book of the Month pick and it was fascinataing! I've always been one to love a good multiverse theory and this book did not disappoint. One of the biggest questions asked when thinking in regards to the possibilities of multiverse is how would your other selves (for lack of a better term) compare to you? How would their lives different? Would they make the same choices? Is there someone out there right now in the vast expanse that is space living a life parallel to yours and are they doing a better job at it? So many questions. I just love it. 

 In The Space Between Worlds Cara is running from her past. She sort of stumbles upon this entire idea of the multiverse by accident and uses it as an opportunity to create a better life for herself. She gets by quite well for many years, thinking she's successfully outrun her past, before it slowly finds it way back to her. In the end Cara realizes that you can take the girl out of the wastes, but she never really leaves it all behind. She learns to accept who she is, for better or for worse, and to stop running. I really loved that aspect of the book. I think so many of us are trying to leaves behind old pieces of ourselves and it just isn't that simple. 

 The book also touches a lot of classism. It is set in the future and the world has gone to shit. Resources are running out and the goverment is failing. The world has been split into two very different class levels; the elites of Wiley City and the poor people of Ashtown. The two are almost entirely different societies and have very little to do with each other. It was an interesting glimpse into what could happen to society one day. 

 All in all, this was an excellent and very thought provoking book and I hope to see more from Micaiah Johnson in the future. It's been a while since I read a SciFi that I just couldn't put down and The Space Between Worlds was the perfect fix.
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