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The Space Between Trees

by Katie Williams (Goodreads Author)

3.1 of 5 stars 3.10 · rating details · 475 ratings · 120 reviews

Not your everyday coming-of-age novel

This story was supposed to be about Eviehow she hasn't made a friend in years, how she tends to stretch the truth (especially about her so-called relationship with college drop-out Jonah Luks), and how she finally comes into her own once she learns to just be herselfbut it isn't. Because when her classmate Elizabeth "Zabet" McCabe's mur...more

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Published June 23rd 2010 by Chronicle Books (first published June 2nd 2010)

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Dec 25, 2011 Demonic Circus Princess rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: beautiful-cover, better-than-expected, chosen-by-my-amazing-intuition

Oh, hey. So this book actually didn't suck like I thought it would. I'm not sure why, but when I read the back, I just got the impression that this would be one of those books with lifeless boring-as-hell characters who do nothing but complain about their dead friend instead of doing shit. Honestly, the only reason I bought it was because of the epic cover. Seriously, look at this thing:

The trees are laser cut so that you can see the purple title page behind it. Is that not the most fantabulous...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Nicole rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: angsty teens who don't know any better

Shelves: ya

Parts of this were beautifully written. Most was disjointed. Aspects of the relationships between the characters made sense. Much simply did not. All of the relationships were complicated.

Also, there was some serious girl homoerotism going on. Which, lord knows, I'm ok with.

But.

I got the feeling that Williams was going for one of those "open" endings, oh my how confusing the world is, sometimes bad things just happen, where oh where to turn, what to do, I am left so very unsettled, how postmo...more

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Jul 27, 2010 Kristin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Okay, so I got this as a First Reads Book... and free books are the best, so I was already looking forward to a great book. After finishing the book, I have to say that I was both disappointed and surprised. First of all, I felt that the story idea was really interesting but that the actual plot could have been more exciting. The love side of the story seems out of place. AND, worst of all, the protagonist, Evie, is annoying. I mean, as the story progresses she becomes more interesting and somew...more

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Aug 09, 2011 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This was a pretty great book. I've read a lot of books in my life so far, and i love most of them, but only a few books rank in my view as absolutely amazing(like "the book theif" "the giver" "milkweed" "eggs"). This was not one of those books, but it was definately above average in it's subtle depth and detail. What really got me was the way the author described.....life. Even an action such as picking up a fork, a mother hugging her daughter, or the thought of how a killer would look at their...more This was a pretty great book. I've read a lot of books in my life so far, and i love most of them, but only a few books rank in my view as absolutely amazing(like "the book theif" "the giver" "milkweed" "eggs"). This was not one of those books, but it was definately above average in it's subtle depth and detail. What really got me was the way the author described.....life. Even an action such as picking up a fork, a mother hugging her daughter, or the thought of how a killer would look at their victim as they lay dead in a silent bed of leaves. All of these actions or thoughts were written beautifully, really showing how a writer should observe the world. I am a writer, and now I am inspired to take my notebook with me and document simple things, such as how a mother looks at her rebeling daughter either with concern or misunderstanding, or even just simple actions such as an expression of a stranger sitting in a park. Not to be creepy or anything, it's just that this book has really made me look at how to write down an expression on someones face, the reasoning behind it, the pause in someones voice, what it could mean. All are important for writing, and even though it may not seem deep at first glance, this author really got it down. The protagonist's mother didn't just have beauty, she had beauty that she kept at the ready like a squad of soldiers, making sure her face was always held elegantly. That her legs were crossed in just he right way to make her look like a queen.

Stuff like this is what i'm talking about, and if u read the book you'll know. The only thing that really bugged me was the ENDING. HADLEySHOULD HAVE BEENT HE MURDERER! it would have given it a dramatic and clever twist. since the moment hadley siad "the killer could be anyone" and evie said "even me?" and hadley then said "even me". i was certain hadley was the killer. all the signs pointed to it. the risky behavior, the paranioa, and it would have added a haunting and interesting twist tot he plot. i hate when the killer in a murder mystery turns out to be some random nobody.(less)

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Mar 03, 2011 Sophie P rated it 3 of 5 stars

The Space Between Trees Chronicle Books,274pp.,$17.99
Katie Williams ISBN978-0-7175-4

“This is where Zabet walked. This is where the killer walked. My footsteps in theirs.”
16 year old Evie’s friend Zabet was found murdered in Hokepe Woods. Her friend Hadley helps find clues. Together, they try to find out who killed Zabet and who might be killed next. Evie and Hadley risk their lives for their dead friend.

The Space Between Trees by Katie Williams is a great fast-pacing first person point of view m...more

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Jan 30, 2011 TheBookSmugglers rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: best-of-2010

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The beauty of a paper route is this: You put a paper on a doormat. Done.

Just like the quote above, The Space Between Trees and its teenage protagonist Evie are deceptively plain.

A girl, Elizabeth “Zabet” McCabe’s, is murdered in the woods that surround Evie’s paper delivery route. Her body is found on a Sunday, and Evie is there to see it being carried away. Later, she discovers that it was Zabet who died, a girl her age, someone she knew a long time ago. At the girl’s funera...more

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Jan 20, 2011 Yune rated it 2 of 5 stars

A beautifully written story about Evie, a high school loner who has a paper route by the edge of the woods. Looking at that sentence, it's hard to imagine that situation described lyrically, and yet it was done. Then there's the perfectly captured mixture of wistfulness and inexperienced minx behind the way she talks everyday to the groundskeeper Jonah, who clears dead animals out of the woods.

I probably should have gotten a clue at that point. I mean, who has a job that consists solely of hauli...more A beautifully written story about Evie, a high school loner who has a paper route by the edge of the woods. Looking at that sentence, it's hard to imagine that situation described lyrically, and yet it was done. Then there's the perfectly captured mixture of wistfulness and inexperienced minx behind the way she talks everyday to the groundskeeper Jonah, who clears dead animals out of the woods.

I probably should have gotten a clue at that point. I mean, who has a job that consists solely of hauling naturally caused animal carcasses? Why are there so many dead beasts in a small patch of woods? Why can't they just be taken care of by nature?

But it's a little too poetic for Evie to witness him one day discover a human corpse instead. And that body is that of Evie's childhood friend Elizabeth. They've long since drifted apart, but one day the lie slips from Evie's mouth, that she was Elizabeth's best friend.

The real best friend, Hadley, uncovers this lie, then somehow pulls Evie into a search for Elizabeth's undiscovered killer.

But this is not a mystery, although it may have the window treatments of one. I think there may be a couple possible reactions at this point:

1. A coming-of-age story with the ugliness and chaos of teenagehood wrapped in something bitter and haunting, or

2. A tedious tale of girls with little character and some disturbing emotional issues.

I ended up in the latter camp. Evie had some fanciful twists of imagination that I guiltily recognized from my own adolescence, but which escalated into some rather stupid and cowardly behavior, while Hadley was reckless and unburdened by conscience. Maybe others will find the twisted relationships here meaningful and illuminating, but this is not a book ruled by plot or a strong character arc or even balance; subplots and characters jag in and out disjointedly.

Strong writing, but I closed this book feeling unsettled and confused, more along the lines of "What was the point?" than in an effective atmospheric way.(less)

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Jan 17, 2011 Jan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: teenbooks, mystery

Summary: Social outcast Evie and bad girl Hadley form an uneasy bond as they attempt to identify who murdered a classmate and dumped the girl's body in a space between trees.

The language is quite imaginative and vivid.

This is a character driven novel, although superimposed upon a suspenseful murder mystery. Evie is an observer in life, not a participant. She is withdrawn and lives within her own imagination. She likes to “try on” behaviors, almost as an actress might. Contrast her with Hadley,...more

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Nov 10, 2010 Heather rated it 1 of 5 stars

I have this habit of saving books that catch my eye or are recommended to a "to read" list online associated with my library card and request them much later, often having no memory of where the recommendation came from. I really wish I remembered for this book, because I would totally purge any other recommendations from the same source. This was just lousy, and I only finished it because I was mildly curious to find out which cliched "surprise" the murderer would turn out to be. And amazingly,...more

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Oct 14, 2010 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: trt-posted-reviews

Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com

Evie is a lonely teen living in a small town in the Midwest. She lives with her mother, who tends to be flighty. They rent house after house, never really putting down roots in this small town.

Evie has a newspaper route on the weekends and loves delivering papers in a more affluent part of town. One of the main reasons she likes this area is that she can see the college boy who picks up dead animals from the woods. His name is Jonah Luks. He is not...more

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Aug 09, 2010 Rachael rated it 3 of 5 stars

Evie mostly keeps to herself. She doesn’t have any real friends and can’t find it in herself to find some. There are mainly two things that Evie likes: her newspaper route and Jonah Luks. That’s why every Sunday, Evie takes her time on her route so that she can run into Jonah. But one Sunday is different from all the others because Jonah finds something in the woods—a body. It turns out to be Elizabeth McCabe, Evie’s childhood friend; she’s been brutally murdered. Evie is just as stunned as the...more Evie mostly keeps to herself. She doesn’t have any real friends and can’t find it in herself to find some. There are mainly two things that Evie likes: her newspaper route and Jonah Luks. That’s why every Sunday, Evie takes her time on her route so that she can run into Jonah. But one Sunday is different from all the others because Jonah finds something in the woods—a body. It turns out to be Elizabeth McCabe, Evie’s childhood friend; she’s been brutally murdered. Evie is just as stunned as the next person, but that doesn’t explain why she lies and tells Zabet’s father that they were friends. This is the start of a strange relationship with Mr. McCabe and Hadley, Zabet’s best friend. Evie finds herself on a wild goose chase with Hadley after Zabet’s killer. Evie doesn’t really know what she’s doing anymore, but she does know Hadley’s erratic and paranoid behavior is sure to land the two in serious trouble.

The Space Between Trees is a murder mystery, but from a new angle. Evie isn’t closely connected to the person who was murdered but still finds herself involved with people who are. Her partnership with Hadley to find Zabet’s killer seemed to me a halfhearted one; Evie craves the companionship more than a desire for justice. This makes the actual investigation rather lackluster and story sometimes boring to read. I found it difficult to like Evie; she cares about very little and seems to not understand the meaning of friendship, and her awkwardness is not endearing at all. In the end, all I could really take away from this story was the futility of it all. Evie goes after Jonah, but gives up pretty easily when things go wrong; Hadley wants to find Zabet’s killer but fails miserably; and during all of this, Evie doesn’t change one bit. I was disappointed with The Space Between Trees because I really wanted to like this story, but unfortunately, I found this hard to accomplish.

The Space Between Trees may be enjoyed by readers who also liked Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin, Wish You Were Dead by Todd Strasser, and Death at Deacon Pond by E.M. Alexander.

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Aug 07, 2010 Sarai rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-fiction

To me this book was, in turns, boring and annoying. Nothing much happens. The book opens with a girl's dead body being found and that's about all the excitement there is. The main characters are 1) a weak-willed girl who lies about half the time she is actually speaking and 2) a crazy girl who needs some serious counseling. Unfortunately, this does not make it interesting, just sad and not much fun to read. There is no big moral of the story so at the end I just felt kind of annoyed that I'd con...more

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Jul 24, 2010 Donna rated it 3 of 5 stars

In all honesty, I like where this book started much more than where it ended. In the beginning, Evie was such an awkward character. Like awkward to the point of me actually cringing at some of the things she did. And the thing is, everyone knows at least one person just like this. They're alone. They crave contact, any contact, with someone and sometimes they act like they're 6 to get it. Not to mention they're oblivious to the obvious body language they're being projected from their target. It'...more In all honesty, I like where this book started much more than where it ended. In the beginning, Evie was such an awkward character. Like awkward to the point of me actually cringing at some of the things she did. And the thing is, everyone knows at least one person just like this. They're alone. They crave contact, any contact, with someone and sometimes they act like they're 6 to get it. Not to mention they're oblivious to the obvious body language they're being projected from their target. It's uncomfortable to watch and just as uncomfortable to read about. That's what really drew me in.

Evie stayed her awkward self until the body was found and she started hanging out with Hadley, the dead girl's current friend (as opposed to Evie herself, being the dead girl's former friend). Her personality, from what I saw, visibly shifted. I still read about Evie as she normally was in her head. The awkwardness was still there. But outwardly that seemed to have gone away and, I think, rather abruptly. I just had a hard time trying to figure out why she was still awkward on the inside and not anymore on the outside. Did she get better at hiding it because of Hadley? I'm not sure.

Hadley was actually my favorite character, though. I wanted to help her so bad. She was so utterly wrecked after her best friend was killed and the sad thing was, no one was really there to help her. Her parents basically stuck her on drugs and left her to her own devises. Personally I think that's an excellent portrayal of parenting today. Drugs cure all, right? The thing is, Hadley isn't the type of character that would actually let you help her. She's one of those people with the tough exterior that's constantly putting on a front and constantly on the offensive. But those moments of weakness, when the hurt and the pain broke through, rounded her character out so thoroughly I could see her standing up from the page and telling the story herself.

The ending turned into a bit of a Lifetime movie for me. I wish there were more consequences to Evie's lies and the things Hadley did aside from merely growing as characters. There didn't seem to be any of that. I kept getting a real Wonder Years monologue going at the very end where all the loose ends were being tied up and wrapped in a pretty box. I'm not a fan of these types of endings. I like them messier. Here, though, everyone seemed to turn out okay and they all moved on with their lives. Pretty boring, if I had to be honest. And I usually do.

So while the plot is relatively stagnant, the characters carry the story in The Space Between Trees. I don't think you'll be reading it to figure out who Zabet's killer is because even within the story itself, it's not the main focus. You'll read it for the characters who are compelling and awkward and nasty and broken. I would change the ending if I could, but I can't. But some people like the kind of neat closure this story will offer and that's fine. I'm sure if it were told from Hadley's point of view, I would have gotten an ending as sloppy as her house.

Check out the first chapter of The Space Between Trees. This is the one that completely sucked me in if only for Evie's heinous awkwardness.
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Jul 23, 2010 Cindy Hudson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Evie spends a lot of her time alone, and for the most part she likes it that way. She’s worlds apart from her mother, who seems obsessed with looking perfect all the time. At lunch in school she sits with a group she calls The Whisperers, because they talk quietly to one another. But at least they accept her presence at their table, and they like to hear stories about Jonah. Jonah combs the woods behind a high-end neighborhood every week to rid it of dead animals while Evie delivers newspapers t...more

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May 09, 2012 Sabrina rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Sep 12, 2011 Lulu rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, realistic, death

Let me start by saying my official star rating is a 2.5.
This story just jumps right in. Evie is lonely and socially inept. She delivers newspapers in a well to do neighborhood every Sunday morning where she encounters Jonah Luks, a college drop out who now removes dead animals from the woods. One Sunday morning both of their lives change when Jonah finds a body in the woods. The body turns out to be Elizabeth McCabe, one time friend of Evie and now known as Zabet and best friend to Hadley.
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Mar 31, 2011 Paula rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 50-book-challenge

I expected to like this book more than I eventually did. It started out well, with an interesting set-up, and I liked the voice of the main character, Evie. But it just seemed to play out too long without anything much really happening.
Evie had once been friends with a girl whose dead body is found early one Sunday morning in the woods near where Evie has her paper route. After this turn of events, wihch seems like the set-up to a mystery whodunnit, the book spends a lot of time following the...more

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Jan 20, 2011 Claire rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Teen Girls/Women

I was first taken aback by the beautiful hardback cover back in October. I knew it could be risky buying this for the cover, a new author too but why invest money in such a beautiful book? As it happened getting hold of the hardback wasn't easy. I tried many different branches of Waterstones and eventually got hold of it online from WHSmith. The words 'it better be worth it' flew around my head.

I find myself looking at life through the eyes of a 16 yr old girl and can't help but giggle at some...more

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Jan 11, 2011 nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

This book was hard to read in the same way watching the last few episodes of Dexter's fourth season have been. You know something terrible is going to happen to fictional characters that you have gotten to know well, but you're not quite sure what. The anxiety is terrible, as you watch them make horrible decisions, talking to the screen or the page as if they can hear you, as if they would listen if you could.

I finished this book at the laundromat today. I didn't even realize that my clothes we...more

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Mar 07, 2011 refgoddess rated it 3 of 5 stars

I can't recall why I held this item on my e-book library account, but it's proving quite readable. It's a coming of age story, surrounded by a murder mystery. There is some rather precious writing (lots of details about physical things like globs of spit, the smell of beer, etc.) Despite all the descriptive details, I don't have a good mental picture of people. Lots of hair flipping and eye narrowing. The narrator is a compulsive storyteller, and that can get in the way too. Sometimes her premon...more

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Aug 04, 2010 Newengland rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: finished-in-2010, ya

Whodunit? The formula is as old as the hills. But what happens when an author messes up a formula even? You wind up in some space between the trees, it turns out -- a space you want to vacate because the plot is "lost in space."

Our protagonist, Evie, is in love with a young man named Jonah who has a job I've never heard of, picking up dead animals in the woods. Uh. OK. But he's cute and he's college-aged (though not in college), so our high school Plain Jane is in love. But wait. Another high sc...more

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May 01, 2012 Catie Taylor rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm not even going to pretend I didn't buy this book for its cover. The picture really doesn't do it justice, but it's beautiful. It is a hardcover that has been laser cut to look like branches that sit over the paper cover underneath. I found it in a bin at Border's last year during its closing sale (sob!). It took me a lot longer than usual to read the book because I kept flipping it over and staring at the cover. But anyway, I didn't get around to reading it for a long time and I didn't expec...more I'm not even going to pretend I didn't buy this book for its cover. The picture really doesn't do it justice, but it's beautiful. It is a hardcover that has been laser cut to look like branches that sit over the paper cover underneath. I found it in a bin at Border's last year during its closing sale (sob!). It took me a lot longer than usual to read the book because I kept flipping it over and staring at the cover. But anyway, I didn't get around to reading it for a long time and I didn't expect much. Luckily, it surprised me.

The story is about Evie, a loner who isn't really lonely at all. She has her paper route and she has Jonah. He hauls dead animals out of the woods behind one of the nicer neighborhoods in town (fun job right?). Evie loves him and follows him around during her route, but he seems to think she's just a silly kid. She twists the small conversations they have together into more romantic tales to tell the girls that she sits with at lunch. Her life with Jonah and her vacuous mother is blissfully boring until a body is pulled out of the woods. It turns out to be her childhood friend, Zabet, and Evie is immediately obsessed with the crime. She becomes entangled with Zabet's father, a sad, lonely divorcee and her best friend, the chain-smoking, slightly unstable, Hadley. She and Hadley begin searching for Zabet's killer and along the way form an unlikely friendship.

So what did I think about this book? Overall, it was better than expected. There were moments of real truth. This was especially true with Hadley. Her grief over the death of her only real friend sends her into a downward spiral that is realistic and painful to watch. She tries so hard to be tough and act like nothing bothers her, but throughout the book you can see her mental instability growing and you really start to feel for her. Mr. McCabe is another character that seems very well thought out. He tries to hold on to his daughter by forming a relationship with Hadley and Evie. His desperation is palpable, from only making spaghetti because it was Zabet's favorite to keeping her room in the complete disarray in which it was left. He is possibly the saddest character in the whole book. Finally there is Jonah. He is sort of an enigma in the book. He is around but he doesn't say much and the reader rarely knows what he is thinking. This is the same way that Evie sees him. The reader wants to get to know him as much as she does. Unfortunately, I didn't feel like he was given a chance to really come into his own as a character. I would have liked to understand him more. Another character who left me wanting was Evie's mother. She was so self-obsessed and vapid that I couldn't help but dislike her. I kept hoping that she would evolve through the story, but unfortunately she didn't. There was sort of a moment toward the end of the book where she seems to have come to her senses (she left the house without makeup, oh my!) but it was lackluster. The biggest problem I had with the book though was the mystery aspect. The whole story seemed to be leading up to this thrilling ending. Some big epiphany and, instead, it fizzled out. I found myself going, "that's it? It's over?" which is never much fun in my opinion.

Negatives aside, this book does have merit. Some of the characters are very fun to get to know and the story, itself, was very interesting at times. Evie is a sympathetic protagonist with real feelings and insecurities and the story does make you think. I wish that the author would have delved a little deeper into the characters and their relationships with one another, but for the most part the story wasn't bad. I'd recommend this if you want something a little dark, with some quirkiness to it.

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Jan 15, 2012 Tanya rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen-fiction, mystery-thriller

The Space Between Trees challenges the typical young adult coming of age novel where something dramatic happens and suddenly all the characters come to a huge revelation. Evie is a loner with so little self awareness that she hardly knows herself. This leads to her creating stories and scenarios that make her sound more exciting, but simply highlight the lack of healthy relationships in her life. So desperate for friends, she creates a fictional romance with a boy several years older than her, w...more

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Sep 21, 2010 Bethany Miller rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ms-miller-s-book-list, new-in-the-lmic

Evie looks forward to waking up early each Sunday morning to do her paper route because she knows she will get to see Jonah Luks – college dropout turned animal control worker whom Evie is infatuated with. One morning she sees Jonah knocking on the door of one of the houses – something Evie knows he is not allowed to do in the wealthy neighborhood of Hopeke Woods. Her curiosity piqued, Evie decides to hide in the bushes to find out what is going on. Just when she has convinced herself that Jonah...more

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Nov 09, 2010 Kate L rated it 2 of 5 stars

I don't know if I am every going to stop judging a book by its cover!!! Maybe because I am such a visual person, I can't help it. I had such high hopes for this book because it had such a cool cover, and the book started out so strong, but fizzled so quickly. At first, the main character, Evie, is strange and some of the things she does and says are cringe worthy, but she is earnest and I liked her despite her oddities. Her character evolution was not one I enjoyed. After she is traumatized by h...more

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Mar 19, 2012 Frances rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, read-in-2010, realistic-fiction

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Several flaws. Evie is a character I couldn't wrap my mind around-- she wasn't solid, she was more of a mish-mash of several people and I couldn't even picture her. Issues aren't really explored, like why Evie doesn’t have friends, why she is so obsessed with Zabet's death (kind of-- sometimes it doesn't seem like she is, but then why did she go out on a limb to find Hadley?), or what she will do now that she knows Jonah doesn't like her. No hint of her moving on, really. Melodramati...more

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May 04, 2010 Amy Huntley rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is an engaging examination of how people "in need" bond--or fail to truly bond--with one another. The murder of a girl in a suburban community propels key characters to find ways to deal with their own lives. The protagonist, Evie, for once goes out on a limb and tries to form relationships, the victim's father tries to fill his sense of absence and loneliness with teens who knew his daughter in ways he never did, and the victim's best friend acts out her fears and frustrations with de...more

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Oct 23, 2010 Charlou Lunsford rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya

Evie, 16, is one of the unseen, the space between trees, the blank paper one writes stories on and she call make up stories about her life. When a girl,Zabat, is found dead in the woods, she lies and attaches herself to Hadley, Zabat's best friend, in a search for the killer. It's about people who manipulate and those who will let themselves be manipulated. And it's about stories - the ones we make up and the ones we end up living.

As much as I liked parts of it and what it was trying to do, it...more

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Jun 26, 2010 Claire rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: high school

Recommended to Claire by: Chronicle

Shelves: first-person-narrator-all-ages, high-school-and-beyond

This book should get more stars- I rate by enjoyment-and murder just isn't fun for me. Others like it more....
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Realistic contemporary fiction=
Evie is lonely and perhaps an introvert. She has no friends, it is just her and her mom- Dad has split, she doesn't know or see him.
She has a paper route - each day she delivers papers in a pretty little town near where she lives. Part way through her route she gets a daily glimpse of Jonah, a college age man who clears dead animals daily from the woods...more

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Mar 25, 2010 Susie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I was invited to read an advance copy of this book, and found it, in a word, delightful. The main character (Evie) drew me in in an almost flirtatious way right from the start, and then took me for a bit of a ride. I was continually seduced by her smarts and her wit and as often, I found myself cringing at the choices she made and the predicaments she got into. I think a true YA reader (i.e., someone who's a YA; I'm not) will find they can really get into this book; Evie presents some tricky age...more

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About Katie Williams

Katie Williams was born and raised in mid-Michigan. She earned her BA in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her MFA in creative writing from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

She currently lives, writes, and teaches (possibly in that order) in San Francisco, CA.

The Space Between Trees, published by Chronicle Books in May 2010, is her first novel.

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“I want to only imagine things, not know them.” — 7 people liked it

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