The premise here is that each Earth from the central one – Earth Zero – is incrementally more different. I’ve always loved the idea of multiverses, of the way things could have gone differently and how that could impact the direction of life in any number of ways. It also shares the feel of Mad Max: Fury Road, set on an Earth after capitalism has destroyed the environment, sapped the planet of its resources, and split society between the wealthy who live in sheltered cities, and the poor who live in sun-bleached deserts ruled by bloodthirsty and capricious warlords. It has a similar anger, a similar feel of a small power against an insurmountable obstacle. I feel like this book was the perfect book to read after Seven Devils. 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. Born in the wastelands where if a basic lack of resources didn’t kill you, violence would, Cara is happy to reap the benefits of a job and a safe place in the city to call home.īut when one of her eight remaining doppelgangers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret. Of the 382 realities that have been unlocked, Cara is dead in all but eightīut on this earth, she survived. The multiverse business is booming, but there’s just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive.Įnter Cara. – Her mother left her alone in a shed while she worked or got high and she fell asleep alone and hungry and forever – The runners came for no one, serving nothing but chaos and fear, and she was what they found – The runners came for her boyfriend and she was in the way – The runners came for her mother and she was in the way – The runners came for a neighbour and she was in the way – She was left alone, and a stranger came along

– She was born addicted and her lungs didn’t develop – One of her mother’s boyfriends wanted to cover up what he did to her – The emperor of the wasteland wanted to make an example of her mother and started with her

The space between worlds summary