Title/Author: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Publication Date/Publisher: November 4, 2014/Harper Teen
Series: Firebird #1
Source and Format: I received this book for free from the publisher via Edelweiss. This in no way affected my opinion of the book, or the content of my review.
Rating: 4 stars
From Goodreads:
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 wish I was still doing half star ratings because 4 seems like too much and 3 stars seems like not enough. I was really enjoying A Thousand Pieces of You, then it dragged a bit, but the end result is…I wish it was a standalone (I also thought it was a debut).
It’s hard to say what I didn’t like about A Thousand Pieces of You, except the title should probably be ONE Thousand Pieces of You, right? Anyway. I thought the ability to jump to different dimensions – but not through time – was very well done. We saw enough different things, and enough of the same things, to really get a feel for what it was like. The sciencey stuff made my eyes glaze over a bit like it always does, and the love triangle, YES LOVE TRIANGLE, wasn’t even horrible, but I didn’t really feel the connection with one side of it.
The bits of it that are going to carry on into the next book (the unresolved parts) were my least favorite and most draggiest parts. I thought the writing, with the asides and little jokes and everything felt very normal for how Marguerite would talk and express herself, but anytime I would put the book down for a while and come back to it, it took a bit to get used to again.
I write my reviews immediately after finishing a book so I can start a new book and not get my thoughts jumbled. I expect, like some others, the more time I spend thinking about it, the more I’ll find at fault, but as it is, I quite enjoyed A Thousand Pieces of You – though I’m not sure I’m on board for a series.
Cloud Atlas meets Every Day – I buy it. I read Every Day and I even read about half of Cloud Atlas (I’d still like to read it or at least watch the movie) and I guess these two were picked because of the body switching part of one and the still kind of being the same person part of the other (that I didn’t finish reading so maybe that’s not what was happening).
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I read Every Day last year and really enjoyed it, and the summary of this one sounds really interesting! I hate when you read books and wish they were standalones, though. That happens to me all the time and it’s the worst feeling! Sometimes there can be just too much of a good thing!