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A transcendent novel about a demon girl's search for love, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Replacement

Everything burns in Pandemonium, a city in Hell made of chrome and steel, where there is no future and life is an expanse of frozen time. That's where Daphne--the daughter of Lilith and Lucifer--waits, wondering what lies in store for her. Will she become a soulless demon like her sisters? Or follow in the footsteps of her brother Obie, whose life is devoted to saving lost souls on Earth? But when Obie saves a troubled boy named Truman from the brink of death and then goes missing, Daphne is catapulted on a mission to Earth, with Truman as her guide. As Daphne and Truman search for Obie, they discover what it means to love and be human in a world where human is the hardest thing to be.

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Brenna Yovanoff's debut novel, The Replacement, was an instant New York Times bestseller. She has an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University and currently lives in Denver.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005GSYXE0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Razorbill (November 14, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 14, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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I'm good at soccer, violent video games, and making very flaky pie pastry.

I'm bad at dancing, making decisions, and inspiring confidence as an authority figure. I suspect this is because I am short, and also terrible at sounding as though I have any idea what I'm talking about.

I was homeschooled until I was fifteen, which has probably affected my world view in ways I can't fathom.

Also, I really, really like parentheses. (Really.)

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Tara Fuller

Hauntingly beautiful. A must read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2012

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Oh my goodness. I cannot put into words how much I adore Brenna Yovanoff's writing. As a reader I am in awe. As a writer I am jealous. Lol. She has a way of crafting a story that is eerie, beautiful, and compelling all at once. This was a book I could not put down.
Daphne is the half-demon, half-fallen angel daughter of Lucifer and Lilith. Immediately she has my attention with Daphne and her life in Pandemonium alone. We are propelled into the story as Daphne ventures to earth in a search for her brother Obie who has gone missing. This is where I fall in love with Daphne as a character. She is the daughter of Lucifer. Her home is Hell. And yet the compassion and love she feels for Obie is something so beautiful it makes her stand out from the world around her. On her journey she meets Truman. And there is just no other way to say this. Poor Truman is as screwed up as they come. And I love him for it. Daphne and Truman have one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful relationships I've seen in YA today. They are both wrong for a lot of reasons but they are so right for each other. They make each other feel hope when hope seems to be lost. Truman follows Daphne on her search for Obie and they begin to fall for each other. I'm going to try to keep this spoiler free, so I'll stop there.
The Spaces Between was mesmerizing and brilliant and everything I love in a book. Brenna Yovanoff earned a place as one of my favorite authors with this one. Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2012

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Today's review is on The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff

The Space Between is a touching and unique story of loss, love, and finding who you really are. At times I found myself angry, and sometimes so sad that my sight became blurry with unshakeable tears.

Daphne is the daughter of the first of the Fallen; Lucifer, and Lilith; Adams wife before Eve. This makes Daphne half-demon and half-angel. Living in Pandemonium, she is not only bored, but lonely and feeling unloved. She never sees Lucifer, and her mother never shown any sign of affection towards her. The only one that show's her any semblance of love is her half-brother Obie.

Obie; like Daphne, is different from Lilith's other children. Because he is the son Adam and not Lucifer, his heart is human. He spends a large portion of his time on Earth "working" in a hospital. His job is to care for "The Lost Ones." The nephilim. The children of Angels and humans. It is through his job that he finds Truman. A boy in desperate need of being saved.

Obie has gone missing after leaving Pandemonium to live with the human woman that he loves, and Daphne somehow feels that she is responsible. Because of this, she decides to search for him on Earth. There is great danger however, in the form of Azrael; the Angel of Death, and Dark Dreadful; the horrible creature that kills demons and drinks their blood.

The only person who can help Daphne is the last person that saw Obie alive. Truman. But Truman is on the road to self destruction, unable to continue on with his life after the death of his mother.

Through their journey to save Obie, Truman and Daphne find redemption and love, along with a baby. How? Read the book to find out.

The Space between is filled with exceptional creativity. The sweetness and sensitivity of the love that grows between Daphne and Truman was a delight to read.

A fantastic book that just needs a bit more editing to correct the mistakes that are still within it.

3.5 of 5 stars

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James

A friend of mine's granddaughter wrote this book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2023

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I purchased this book only because the author is the granddaughter of a friend of mine. Read the book. Became a fan and have purchased several as gifts for my friends who enjoyed the read as much as I enjoyed the work.

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Didn't love, but didn't hate.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2013

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I didn't like how the voice changed throughout the book. It was very clumsy and hard to get into new scenes. I did like the more evil characters, but I felt about zero for the main characters. They were flat to me. Read The Replacement if you want to be wowed by this author. I'm sure her next book will be brilliant. This one just didn't get me.

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2023

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Took me a little while to get into her voice, but then, suddenly, I was done with the book. Quite enjoyable.

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2012

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Deliciously creepy, this is the tale of a girl (the spawn of Lucifer and Lilith) learning to accept herself as the half angel, half demon princess that she is, capable of great acts of love, bravery and selflessness, even if she was born and raised in hell. Compelling characters and a fast paced plot make for a fun and cute read, that is at times eerie and haunting, but always beautiful in it's wording and inclusion of detail. I picked this book up because I liked Yovanoff's The Replacement a lot, but I can honestly say I like this one much better. I love Yovanoff's tendency to humanize the evil and ugly characters, while shining light on the ugly that exist inside even the most beautiful specimens.
If you're a fan of YA novels that involve angel/devil mythology, or the writing of Maggie Stiefvater or are just looking for a creepy but cute read in this genre, look no further than The Space Between. :)

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Queen J

A dark, delicious read

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2013

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This was a great read. The characters are dark and complex, and the backdrop is creepy and intriguing. This is cartainly a stand out YA paranormal book in a sea of books containing imitations and unimpressive charcters. I loved Daphne; she was frightening and demonic, yet innocent and child - like at the same time. I loved the beautiful descriptive language the author used to characterize her heroes/ villains. I had such a clear picture in my head of what the two main characters looked like, and I always appreciate that quality in a book. I can't stand it when I finish a book and still have no idea exactly what the main characters look like. Not so with this author; I have a glorious "painting" of both Daphne and Lilith burned into my mind. I was drawn in by the gorgeous cover art, and was not disappointed. I'd definitely read more from this author, well done.

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Mina

A book like a Hieronymus Bosch painting - truly gothic and bleak, yet also hauntingly beautiful

Reviewed in Germany on May 15, 2022

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I actually feel as if I had sat in a museum for hours, watching the intricate cruel and yet arresting scenes playing out in Bosch‘s paintings of hell. Wow. This book sat on my to-be-read-pile for years and years and I can’t believe I didn’t read it any earlier. Because you see, I love the writing of Maggie Stiefvater and although this is fully its own novel and Brenna Yovanoff has her own style, the magic wrought with words reminds me of everything I love about Stiefvater’s writing.

Daphne is the daughter of Lucifer and Lillith, and her life in Pandemonium, the city that is hell, is quite boring. That changes when the only person Daphne really cares about is missing. Her brother Obie left hell to live on with a human woman he fell I love with. This is highly forbidden and dangerous, because there is archangel Azrael, hunting demons (and half-demons) who stay on earth too long. So when Obie is missing, Daphne leaves hell and starts her search on earth.
Her search brings her to the very broken, very lost boy named Truman, who is the only clue Daphne has, and so their magical search begins, always careful so they’re not found by Azrael, who seems to be hard on their trail… I can’t tell more about the plot without spoiling it, but their search and travels to strange human and otherworldly places is painted in such wonderful sentences. I was mesmerized. The way hell is depicted, the life there, the heartwrenching way Truman and his stepfather live side by side, yet unable to connect… just great in its intensity and although there are so many bleak moments and gritty experiences, it’s also so incredibly beautiful. And so many things I was certain about, weren’t at all what I thought them to be. Great book. Will definitely look for other books of Brenna Yovanoff.

Corinne Bantle

This was an interesting read

Reviewed in Canada on November 24, 2012

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I liked this story - it was well written. I certainly didn't expect it to go in the direction that it did. I've since ordered her other book "The Replacement". The story centres around Daphne - and her relationships in Hell. Her brother Obie is the only one that seems to care about her. He is half human - a son of Adam. Obie walks the Earthly Plain and one day is in the square with a boy -- Truman. Truman is damaged and Daphne pleads for his life. His mother died years earlier and he's never been the same. Truman is sent back to Earth. Obie just can't stand being in Hell anymore and he's told Daphne that he's in love. He's leaving. Daphne is worried about him and she leaves Hell without her mother's permission and is looking for Obie because she thinks he's in danger. She knows that Truman was the last person to see Obie and so she must find him and hope that he will help her find her brother. But to what length will she go to find her brother, Obie?

Tina T.

Not my cup of tea

Reviewed in Germany on December 17, 2011

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'The Space Between' was, well, interesting to say the least. I really have a hard time formulating my opinion about it, since on one hand it's awsome and on the other hand, it's actually really strange. I don't think any book has ever made me feel as detached from the story as this one. Which says a lot, considerating I'm always affected by books I read, no matter how good or bad they are.

So, how to go about this. I think my major problem was the fact that thoughout the story I felt like something crucial was missing. By now, I figured it must have been the lack of what's usually driving a story forward - this might sound harsher than it is, but the novel simply felt lifeless to me. There are character driven plots, action driven plots, even dialogue driven plots - only this one has nothing that makes you want to keep reading.

For me, 'The Space Between' is all pretty pictures without the meaning behind it.
The author's prose is beautiful, it really is, and I found it stunning how she took time to paintsakingly describe every little detail in such vivid images.
This book is all about descriptions and a lot of things that drawn somehwere half-way. Even though I honestly wanted to, I could never quite get fully absorbed into the story. I guess it's supposed to be sort of heartbreaking and raw and amazing, only I couldn't feel it.
It was as if I kept waiting for something to happen and it just didn't, and then I was staring at the end and somehow it had all played out wrong. Something about thsi story simply didn't work for me.

The scenes each one standing for themselves are great, but they don't work when you connect them. It's the same with the characters. Without exception they are perfectly characterized, all flawed and realistic, but when you look at them all together and the realtionships beween them, the image looks like a mismatched puzzle. I guess the best example are Daphne and Truman. Both their personalities are unique and distinct, yet when I try to see them as a couple, it simply doesn't feel right. To this point, I don't understand why they are in love with each other, the reason their relationshop developed this way or why they even ended up the way they did. Seriuosly, why are they suddenly so close? There was no sizzling chemistry, and their romance felt pale and forced.

To cut a long story short, I recommend this mostly for fans of Brenna Yovanoff. Everyone else, I advise to read the excerpt and if you're not swept away by the writing, let it be. It is unfortunately the main thing that speaks for this novel.

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Alex' Bücherschnack

Ein wirklich tolles Buch

Reviewed in Germany on May 25, 2013

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The Space Between (TSB) war das erste Buch, welches ich von Yovanoff las und hat mich sofort zu einem Fan gemacht.
Wer dieses Buch oder generell Yovanoff's Stil mag, dem empfehle ich unbedingt ihre beiden anderen Bücher The Replacement und Paper Valentine. Nicht nur, dass die Bücher thematisch alle sehr unterschiedlich und vom Stil her extrem gut sind, was mir außerdem gefällt ist, dass Yovanoff keine reihen schreibt. Beseonders letzteres scheint mir im Fantasygenre gerade sehr selten.
Fazit: Tolle Autorin, tolle story, super Charaktere (ich liebe Daphne - sie ist so klasse) & viel Lesespaß - 5 Sterne

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Soobie Mennym

Not what I expected from such a wonderful cover

Reviewed in Germany on October 17, 2015

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This book won't leave a lasting memory on me, I'm pretty sure about that. It's a meh book, I guess.

Random things I didn't like:

• Is Chicago really as dirty as described in this book? I mean, the author describes it as filthy. As soon as Daphne arrives there she touches the ground and her fingers turn black. Then she ends up in a filthy motel room. People are sort of abandoned, as well. Not that Las Vegas leaves a positive impression either. It's like the city of corruption, where demons can do whatever they want. So what's the difference between a steel demon city and the US?

• Raymie was extremely creepy for a baby.

• Truman drinks and smokes a lot. It's to keep to bad guy at bay, he says. It's like alcohol and cigarettes are his arms against evil. But there's no line saying the consequences of his drinking. No hung-over or anything.

• A lot of religion I didn't understand. And I was quite sure that Lucifer and Beelzebub were the same guy.

• Resurrection, yay.

• Not very convinced by Daphne as a character. I didn't mind the fact that she doesn't express any emotions or feeling but she doesn't give off anything else.

Maybe I'm just not a big fan of demons Vs. angels books.

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