Review of A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

Advance Review of Claudia Gray's A Thousand Pieces of You

Release Date: November 4th, 2014

Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:

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.

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In the past few years, I have read a few incredible Dimension hopping YA Thrillers that I have loved. Although it took me a minute to get used to the difference in Claudia Gray's writing style from her Evernight series, which I was a HUGE fan of, I found myself enjoying this story. It is filled with different realities in alternate universes, action, adventure, & intrigue.

Marguerite, or Meg as dubbed by research assistant to her parents Theo, is dealing with the recent loss of her father. As far as the family knows, he has been killed by another research assistant, Paul, for their research into the universe hopping invention, Firebird. Paul has jumped into an alternate universe before anyone can stop him and it is up to Meg to stop him... but all hope is lost until Theo shows up with 2 prototype Firebirds. Thus begins their journey...

I don't believe that this series will mean as much to me as Evernight, but I will be tuning in for the sequel to find out what happens next.