Marguerite is a capable and easily likeable heroine and, as the story is told in first-person narrator from her point of view, that’s something of a relief as, if she’d been more annoying, I suspect the overall story would have been less likeable.
“Apparently, when people travel between dimensions, their physical forms are “no longer observable,” which is a quantum mechanics thing, and explaining it involves this whole story about a cat that’s in a box and is simultaneously alive and dead until you open the box, and it gets seriously complicated. Providing that the reader is willing to suspend disbelief and buy into the science surrounding the Firebird device, A Thousand Pieces of You proves to be an engaging read as we follow Marguerite through time and space in search of runaway Paul. Marketed as Orphan Black meets Cloud Atlas, Claudia Gray’s first book in a YA sci-fi Firebird trilogy sets up the concept of a highly technical scientific device which allows its user to travel into a parallel universe, “jumping into” the body of their counterpart in that universe and taking it over, with all the trials and tribulations expected as the user has to quickly learn the rules of a new society and the responsibilities of the new persona they have inhabited. What sounds like it will be a fast-paced race through different personalities and iterations of the story’s characters in fact is more thoughtful, raising bigger questions about scientific discovery, morality and ethics, and the effect of death. A Thousand Pieces of You explores a world where other versions of our own lives are possible in an amazingly intricate multi-universe, and where fate is unavoidable, and true love inevitable.” ( Synopsis from the publisher)
And soon she discovers that the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt and her own heart. 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. But then Marguerite’s father is murdered, and the killer – her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul – slips into another dimension before the law can touch him. None more so than the Firebird, a device that allows users to jump into different universes, which catapulted them into instant fame. “Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Genre: young-adult science-fiction romance
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