The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff‏

Description:

Daphne is the half-demon, half-fallen angel daughter of Lucifer and Lilith. Life for her is an endless expanse of time, until her brother Obie is kidnapped—and Daphne realizes she may be partially responsible.

Determined to find him, Daphne travels from her home in Pandemonium to the vast streets of Earth, where everything is colder and more terrifying. With the help of the human boy she believes was the last person to see her brother alive, Daphne glimpses into his dreams, discovering clues to Obie’s whereabouts. As she delves deeper into her demonic powers, she must navigate the jealousies and alliances of the violent archangels who stand in her way (Goodreads).

My Thoughts:

I’ve been aware of this book for quite some time but I didn’t want to buy the hardcover so I was patiently waiting for it to come in a softcover. But fortunately for me my library had this book in their collection, so I was able to get it from there. I was bit vary of this book because I read The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff and I did not think it was that good. But since this book was free at the library I thought I give it a try. I have to say that The Space Between was better than The Replacement was, but not by much. 

Daphne, daughter of Lucifer and Lilith, is a demon who has never been to the surface of Earth. I liked Daphne, she was very much different character than what I am used to reading about. This was a good thing about this book. Another good thing about this book was the author manages to make me as a reader sympathise with the Daphne and other demons. Also makes you dislike Azrael the angel of death. Even though I liked Daphne as a character I wished that there was more to her character, she struck me as boring and very boring actually. Same for Obie. I was not a big fan of the relationship between the two. I would have been fine with them being friends and nothing more. There was no chemistry and the story did not provoke a lot of emotional reaction from me as a reader. The only emotional reaction I can think of was my dislike of Azrael, but that’s about it.

The book was written from two different POV, which I found bit confusing at the beginning. I was bit confused who was narrating the story, Daphne or Obie; it took me few chapters to get used to the two different POVs. I have to say that there was not a lot of character growth in this book, I felt that both Obie and Daphne were very monotonous and constant throughout the book. I think that the first part of the book was better than the second half. Once we get into the second part of the book things start to go downwards. The ending was not my favourite, I wish that they left it off with Obie being gone but of course not, they have to be together. 

Overall this was alright read for me, there was nothing to get to excited about. I do think that the plot idea was great and intriguing but the execution was poor. Daphne’s world was not developed, there is no layout of how the demons and angel work and interact. Rather you are left to figure that yourself using whatever knowledge you have about demons and angels (I hope I am making sense). So in a sense the author does not tell you what this world is like but rather you are left hanging a bit.

I give this book 3/5 STARS – Happy Reading!

Other Books Review by this Author:

The Replacement