She works-and shamelessly flirts-with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun.
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. The villain and the way the ending played out definitely had room for improvement, but just don't read too closely into it lol.An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. It did pick up the pace midway for an relatively satisfying conclusion. The first quarter felt really slow as the author established the character's backstory and all the supporting characters and I was half-considering giving up on it. So don't expect the author to really explain the travelling thing. The book isn't too heavy on sci-fi, as it more ends up being about the people that Cara meets between the different worlds, and all the ways they are different (or the same). She travels for quite mundane reasons - to gather data on parallel worlds for statistical analysis and to try and make money off of it. Our main character, Cara is one such traveler. Since rich people tend to be alive in most of their worlds, this means the job of traveling falls on the poor underclass.
From the title and cover I actually thought this was some sort of YA-ish romance book (oops, probably getting confused with "The Space Between Us") but it's actually a decent soft sci-fi novel.īasically they've invented traveling between parallel worlds, but the catch is you can only travel there if your counterpart in the other world is dead.
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