Cara is a member of the lower classes abandoned and discriminated against simply for being born outside the walls of the wealthy Wiley City, a city which also serves as a corporate haven for Bosch. These worlds all have one thing in common: inequality. In all the worlds she has visited, her life is difficult. Cara is one of the few traversers hired by Bosch’s company to extract information and data out of the other worlds for the benefit of her world.īut as readers will learn, Cara’s work comes at a cost.Ĭara is scrappy and curious, determined to benefit and learn from her travels in other timelines despite corporate rules prohibiting such behavior. The book is set in the future where a megalomaniac engineer, Adam Bosch, has discovered that there are parallel worlds: 372 to be exact. Cara claws her way out of the literal wastelands to become a traverser, someone who travels in time from one world to another. I don’t want to give away the brilliant plot, so I will be a bit cagey with my review. The lead character is Cara, a rough and tumble woman who is clever, resourceful, and, above all, fearless. The book is a haunting sci-fi thriller that has characters who are impossible to forget. It was exactly the kind of read I needed this year. I’ve behind on a lot of my reading this year, too, but I think that’s to be expected in times like these! Nevertheless, I was so happy to pick up and read The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. Between a cancer scare and the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve really needed to check out in the late nights and early mornings when I read.

This year I’ve been trying to read a lot of escapist fiction. Sometimes the path to an easy life makes you miserable.” “They say hunting monsters will turn you into one.” “The universe erases me, but it also remakes me again and again, so there must be something worthwhile in this image.”

The space between worlds book