The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson was a book that I expected to enjoy as it looked at the multiverse
and how parallel universes could exist.
There is little to no real science to
support the idea but that is the basis of science fiction—possible or alternate
futures. I found the writing confusing and the story hard to follow. It was far more fantasy than science fiction
as there seemed little to believe might be true. Character development was interesting as was
the idea that a person could not exist simultaneously in different realities in
a multiverse reality. It seemed that the
author had maintained some connections across the multiverses and explored a possibility
if they existed how individuals in one might be different in another. Cara, the protagonist, was different in
different worlds or at least somewhat different. Could an individual from a different Earth
(referred to by numbers) than Earth Zero – the “original" one pull off a
switch into another Earth? Would it be
like identical twins switching places?
This is one of the ideas explored.
I’m sure some readers would like
or even love this book and storyline, but alas, that was not for me. I was reading a free review copy but if I had
actually purchased this book, I would have been very upset at anything over
$0.25 that I might have paid. Just not my cup of tea and I do love and
voraciously read science fiction. My rating of 3 is based on the fact that it
was not bad enough for me to quit reading and also that I feel some might like
it.
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