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The Space Between Worlds

By: Micaiah Johnson
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
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The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive.

Enter Cara. Of the 382 realities that have been unlocked, Cara is dead in all but eight.

On this earth, however, she survived. Identified as an outlier and a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the wastelands and given a job and a comfortable apartment in the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Cara knows what it's like to feel hungry and scared, so she's more than happy to reap the benefits of her new position. As long as she keeps her head down, she's on a sure path to citizenship and security for life.

But when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined - and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.

©2020 Micaiah Johnson (P)2020 Penguin Random House Audio Adventure Parallel Universe Science Fiction Fiction Heartfelt Thought-Provoking
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...I expected a sci-fi book and as such it's a very slow and rather depressing book, with women being offered no options but prostitution of different varieties and with abuse being normalised, which to me seemed like a sad lack of imagination.

After a while I changed my mindset though and listened to the book as a story about the consequences of making different choices based on prejudice on all sides and how the story changes based on minor adjustments to the characters' different choices. As such I rather enjoyed the book. Regardless, the narrator did a good job.

Depends on your expectations...

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Easy to listen to and well read. interesting concept with parallel worlds and class divide. Not the most gripping story I have come across but I enjoyed it and wanted to finish it.

not the best, not the worst

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Thank you, audible reviewers, for influencing me first to get this and then to keep going after what felt to me like a lacklustre start. Having persisted beyond the first couple of chapters, I loved it. The author writes with originality and intelligence that is a delight to listen to. Unlike an awful lot of exuberantly conceived science fiction, the events follow logically from the premise and i never found myself groaning over inconsistencies and absurdities.

The reader does a first rate job both of the dialogue and the narration. Unfortunately I found her voice abrasive and difficult to listen to. This isn't a comment on the way she voiced the main character, nor of her accent (I love the accent) but I just found her sound very harsh.

Richly rewarding and intelligently written

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Loved this book. The story telling was amazing, the subtle romance was beautiful, the fact that the book contains many different kinds of people and the main character is a woman of colour...just an absolute delight of a book. Can't wait to read more from this author.

Great storytelling

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This was great and was tonally very different to a lot of sci fi and was refreshing for it, but was still great sci fi at its core.

Excellent

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