Author: Claudia Gray
Published: 1 Nov 2014
Series: Firebird #1
Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis:
Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions.
Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.
Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows—including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt—as well as her own heart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected.
A Thousand Pieces of You explores an amazingly intricate multi-universe where fate is unavoidable, the truth elusive, and love the greatest mystery of all.
So what if hair pulling is a girl move? It hurts, and it works.
I listened to this one as an audiobook. The narrator did a wonderful job and did the different voice accents each time they changed too which was lovely and added to the story.
Originally, I hated Paul - which I guess is the idea as it open with a scene about her wanting to kill him. He did really grow on my throughout the book though.
For one split second, it's hilarious. I'm going to marry Prince William. I'll get all Kate Middleton's cute coats.
It's nice that having your period in Russia before technological advances was put into the book. It was only mentioned once, though. Even though it there would have been an entire week of the pre-tech period, it's never mentioned again.
I need him to be one more of those assholes who thinks my brain couldn't hold anything other than gossip and favourite colours of nail polish.
I sort of loved the text messages from Theo in varying states of panic though. How the texts cut each other off and it was sort of like he couldn't even get his main thought in edge-wise because of all the panic.
I didn't know it was possible to go from making out with someone to wanting to smack them upside the head hard in less than a minute, but here we are.
Spoilers!
I did guess that the Tsar wasn't her father in the Russian universe as how else was she supposed to be there? She did say something similar to her unique DNA make-up being the only one she could go to.
I don't think that she should have left Evil Theo in the sub-like machine under the water, though. Plus finding out that through pretty much throughout the entire book we weren't reading about Real Theo and that we were reading about Evil Theo did emotionally suck a bit though.
End Spoilers!
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All books in this series:
1 | A Thousand Pieces of You
2 | Ten Thousand Skies Above You
3 | A Million Worlds With You
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