That said, I have a few problems with the plot turns. If you read this book just to experience the world through Jace, it will have been well worth the read. The Space Between rests somewhere in between the styles of Frank Portman and John Green, with a heavier Green leaning. Aker threads the best use of dirty words and expletives I’ve read since King Dork. I could feel Don Aker channelling his teenage self through the character with a touch of his more objective, adult perspective. The excellence to this book is in Jace’s voice. But it doesn’t touch Jace’s real story, the one that unfurls slowly and takes on more colour as Jace learns what it really means to become a man. But the only person he seems to attract to his company is the jerk jock, Connor, who is travelling with his raucous team mates.Īnd that’s the plot in a nutshell. When his aunt rents him his own room at the resort, he can’t believe his luck. Jace loves his family but travelling with his mom, his lushy aunt, and autistic brother will make it near impossible for him to achieve his goal at the Mexican resort, the Mayan Empress. What soon-to-be-turning eighteen year-old Jace doesn’t know is that life has a way of churning up the best intentions, leaving him to sort through what’s left. I think that Don Aker took one of those creative writing classes which teach you to open your book with a bang:Īnd he does.
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