A Thousand Pieces of You
Author: Claudia Gray
Publication Date: November 4th 2014
Publisher: Harper Teen
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.
Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.
Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.
A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure
I'll let you into a little secret, I'm not an optimist. I
look for the bad in books first before looking for the good, so when I love a book despite its faults, that's
when I know I truly love a book. Even if I do dislike it or have some issues
with it, I usually can find redeemable qualities. Now, this isn't like with
debuts where it can go either way, I wasn't worried about A Thousand Pieces of
You at all, it's Claudia Gray, you guys, I had no doubt I would love it. I haven't finished the
Evernight series, I've read up until the third I think, but I liked them, I
read Fateful and loved that-because hello, Titanic-and I've started the
Spellcaster series and loved the way the magic is represented, so A Thousand
Pieces of You was a must read. Which
is why I'm so disappointed that I absolutely
hated it. The only redeemable quality I can find is the fact we jump to
different times and different countries dimensions, but even then, I was too
pissed off with the characters and their actions to actually enjoy it, and for
most of it, it just felt like we were just given the run around.
