Welcome, loves! This is a blog tour hosted by Sammie @ The Bookwyrm’s Den in support of her local public library’s Diverse Book Drive. The CCPL—a small, rural library in an area with a high poverty rate and a very homogeneous population, where people rarely have the means to travel or experience new perspectives. However, the library doesn’t believe that should stop people from learning more about the world around them, so they’re running a Diverse Book Drive through the month of September in an attempt to bring the rest of the world to the county instead. With a focus on MG and YA books, the CCPL aims to expose especially its young patrons to new and diverse perspectives and cultures.
For my post, I will be featuring Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds. If you’ve been around, you’ll know I fell totally in love with this book and with the adventure, literally between worlds, that the main character Cara gets to go on. So let me share a bit about the book, then let us pretend that our Earth has these capabilities- what would they look like? And please stay tuned for info on how to donate to this wonderful cause!
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah JohnsonPublished by Del Rey Books on August 4, 2020
Pages: 336
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.
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.
In The Space Between Worlds, Cara explains that the Caras’ case files from the different worlds she visits are different. They’re not even all named the same. And the worlds themselves vary a lot too. The ones numbered lowest are the most similar to “Earth 0”, or the world we currently inhabit. The higher the number, the more vast the difference. Cara’s world is not quite the same world we live in, either. She’s in a world where the wealthy and elite live in what amounts to walled cities, with the highest tech and best amenities, while the poorer folks live out their days in dangerously unsafe towns on the outskirts. So I couldn’t help but wonder… what would our Earth’s Universe Siblings look like?
So, enjoy my fake case notes from Various Earth Shannons!
Maybe we try to make Earth 380 the closest thing to us, yeah?
Hardcover books are preferred, but not required.
Blog tour book wishlists:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3A68Y0WPKN944
Book Depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/wishlists/WCD650
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/a745073e127380f9801a59a39ff7b960a5e9c70e
If you order a wish list book from Bookshop, please send a message to sammie@thebookwyrmsden.com so the book can be removed to avoid duplicate purchases, as I do not believe the site automatically removes the book from the list.
Other ways to donate:
Amazon book idea wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3OWBBXXOXVS2K
Monetary donations: PayPal to orders@caseylibrary.org
Gently used or other new book donations mailed to:
Sammie Betler
Casey County Public Library
238 Middleburg St.
Liberty, KY 42539
*Book donations are used at the discretion of the library.*
September 2: Lauren @ Always Me – The Epic Crush of Genie Lo September 3: Toya @ The Reading Chemist – Felix Ever After September 4: Michelle @ Carry A Big Book – Sharks in the Time of Saviors September 5: Shenwei @ READING (AS)(I)AN (AM)ERICA – The Astonishing Color of After September 6: Maria @ A Daughter of Parchment and Paper – Patron Saints of Nothing September 7: Bri @ Bri’s Book Nook – True Friends (Carmen Browne) September 8: Bec @ bec&books – Lobizona || Jorie @ Jorie Loves A Story – diverse TTT September 9: Sienna @ Daydreaming Book Lover – Loveless September 10: Kerri @ Kerri McBookNerd – Raybearer September 11: Noly @ The Artsy Reader – The Name Jar September 12: Jacob @ The Writer’s Alley – Forest of Souls September 13: Keri @ Are You My Book – The Tea Dragon Society September 14: Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight – The Space Between Worlds September 15: Melissa @ Ramblings of a Jedi Librarian – Girl in Translation
September 17: Crystal @ Lost in Storyland – American Born Chinese September 18: Lili @ Lili’s Blissful Pages – A Wish in the Dark September 19: Leslie @ Books Are The New Black – The Poppy War September 20: Noura @ The Perks of Being Noura – Love From A to Z September 21: Crini @ Crini’s – A Pale Light in the Black September 22: Rachelle @ Rae’s Reads and Reviews – Dear Haiti, Love Alaine September 23: Dini @ DiniPandaReads – Wicked As You Wish September 24: Madeline @ Mad’s Books – Spin the Dawn September 25: Tessa @ Narratess – Brace Yourself September 26: Kimberly @ My Bookish Bliss – Truly Madly Royally September 27: Rena @ Bookflirting 101 – Anna K: A Love Story September 28: Susan @ Novel Lives – Burn the Dark September 29: Arina @ The Bookwyrm’s Guide to the Galaxy – A Song of Wraiths and Ruin September 30: Maya @ http://mybookishbliss.com/ – Jackpot
Those notes are hilarious & let’s hope Earth 380 prevails!
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
I love what you did with your post. I can’t wait to read this one. 🙂