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The Space Between Worlds: The riveting Sunday Times bestseller

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I really did love the set up for this book and the idea of how the multiverses worked and how they were used by the major corporation. The science has no real explanations about how it works but I was okay with that. I really enjoyed the limitations on multiverse travel. The main character, Cara, was fun and I loved the hints of mystery about her from the very beginning. The world-building was messy and was very hard to follow. The multiverse had only a few rules and they were really all thrown to the wind. There are three hundred and eighty-two. Worlds that used to resonate but have gone silent are included on the test too.” Their religion is a mish-mash: they read the Bible and Quaran simultaneously and worship Mary and Krishna side by side. Also, confessing to fireworks? Strangely that makes sense in the Caramenta way.

The Space Between Worlds: a Sunday Times bestselling science

The bones were amazing but the conflict was half-baked and I felt like the “villain” was severely under-developed. Another me is gone. As I walk into the valley, I’m a little more valuable walking down the mountain than I was walking up. Most of the worlds that the Eldridge Institute can visit are fairly similar, although some have strange diseases and climates, but there’s some consistent lines that they share: there’s systematic inequality between the dwellers of Ashtown and the affluent folks who live in Wiley City, where the Bosch and his Institute are located. The worlds that Cara has to navigate aren’t just the alternate realities that she’s sent to: it’s also navigating those two different worlds of secure, ultra-wealthy and poverty. In many ways, she’s an outsider in all of them, not only having to adjust to her new world, but maintain her place in Wiley City long enough to become a citizen and escape from that harsh world.

Sometimes, I was just forgotten in the shed where she kept me while she worked or spun out, and in the length of her high and the heat of the sun I fell asleep alone and hungry and forever. (c)

The Space Between Worlds: a Sunday Times bestselling science The Space Between Worlds: a Sunday Times bestselling science

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. I genuinely loved the world building, the characters and the writing and if this was the start of a trilogy I would have been ecstatic. But instead, the book developed (tried to at least) so many plot points which were then left out of the main story and therefore I was left without a sense of finality. We learn, that the life of our MC is different enough in at least quite a lot of the worlds to, uh, warrant very different names, destinies, etc. But where are all the millions of Caramenta-containing worlds and worlds where Caralex has a very success career in the House and? Why only 300-something worlds? Are in this world-building worlds created only after a certain step slightly bigger than some constant is reached? Or are they just vising the ones that are not only not too different but also different enough? We aren't told anything about it. Adam Bosch, the founder of the Eldridge Institute had discovered a way to see into other universes, a way to retrieve intel from worlds with a slight frequency shift from that of Earth Zero. To collect this important data, "disposable people" were needed as traversers who were pulled from one world and forced into another for the purpose of data collection. Out of 380 compatible worlds, Cara was still alive on 8. She could only be sent to worlds where her doppelganger had died. "With the exception of some of the traversers, we are stunningly expendable". To survive means to strive for permanent citizenship in Wiley City. Having traversed more than any other Eldridge employee, she was well on her way to this goal. oh, interesting! that's a fun coincidence then, lol. so, what do you think she was seeing then, if not the WBW? like...force heaven or something?Romance is more of a sub-plot but the slowburn is very sweet and the most precious thing in this dark dystopia. star: Caramenta, Caralee, Nelline… all of these are the parallels of our MC. Well, the one we're looking at is Caralee but hush, that's a secret. Love this twist. Now, I didn’t have to make it so complicated, but it’s odd to rate and review a book which you loved the potential of but it’s glaringly obvious that it didn’t offer everything it promised. Extremely limited test pressing edition of the new Howling Giant album for the most diehard collectors! Adam, he's such an interesting mind, as the man who was behind the ability to explore the multiverse, he's definitely got a lot on his plate. I found him to be extremely intelligent, calculated, and reminiscent of his other-universe counterparts, whom you meet in the story.

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