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A review by cvsuthie
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
5.0
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS
THIS BOOK MESSED WITH ME SO MUCH
Okay, lemme calm down a little bit so I can actually write this review....
Alright, let's go.
So, the basic premise of this book is that Marguerite Caine's parents are super smart scientists who have created a device that allows someone to jump across dimensions - and these dimensions are infinite. This device is called the Firebird.
Let me give you a crash course in how this device works, and how jumping through dimensions works. When you move through dimensions, you wake up inside your own body within that dimension and kind of live within them for the duration of your time in that dimension. When you leave, that version of yourself will "awaken", I guess, but they'll only have hazy memories of what happened while you were in their body, if they have memories at all. There's no time travel involved - you wake up exactly the same time that you left, but the location can change depending on where your body is at that time.
Okay, that's that. Now that you understand the basics of this central object in the plot - and believe me, this plot is VERY confusing - let's move on to the actual book.
Basically, this novel is filled to the brim with plot twists, especially in the second half. The first half of the book feels like teenage insta-love, but honestly, even if you're not really feeling it at first you should definitely stick it out and keep reading, because you will be rewarded GREATLY in the last half of the book. There is so much romance and adventure and so many plot twists that you will just be SCREAMING with the feels like me.
This is an incredibly ambitious book for the YA genre, particularly because nothing like it has ever been done, not for YA audiences. Although it is primarily science fiction, it would be more accurate to call it a blend of many different genres - romance, adventure, sci fi, even historical at some points - and it's a truly unique book for this reason. Any YA reader who is feeling a bit bored with the current books that are trending in our reading community will be greatly satisfied with this one (another perk is that since it doesn't really fit into one specific genre, it is sure to please readers with varying tastes in books, so no matter what genre you usually prefer, this book probably has some of it in it.)
I promise you will not regret reading this!
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS
THIS BOOK MESSED WITH ME SO MUCH
Okay, lemme calm down a little bit so I can actually write this review....
Alright, let's go.
So, the basic premise of this book is that Marguerite Caine's parents are super smart scientists who have created a device that allows someone to jump across dimensions - and these dimensions are infinite. This device is called the Firebird.
Let me give you a crash course in how this device works, and how jumping through dimensions works. When you move through dimensions, you wake up inside your own body within that dimension and kind of live within them for the duration of your time in that dimension. When you leave, that version of yourself will "awaken", I guess, but they'll only have hazy memories of what happened while you were in their body, if they have memories at all. There's no time travel involved - you wake up exactly the same time that you left, but the location can change depending on where your body is at that time.
Okay, that's that. Now that you understand the basics of this central object in the plot - and believe me, this plot is VERY confusing - let's move on to the actual book.
Basically, this novel is filled to the brim with plot twists, especially in the second half. The first half of the book feels like teenage insta-love, but honestly, even if you're not really feeling it at first you should definitely stick it out and keep reading, because you will be rewarded GREATLY in the last half of the book. There is so much romance and adventure and so many plot twists that you will just be SCREAMING with the feels like me.
This is an incredibly ambitious book for the YA genre, particularly because nothing like it has ever been done, not for YA audiences. Although it is primarily science fiction, it would be more accurate to call it a blend of many different genres - romance, adventure, sci fi, even historical at some points - and it's a truly unique book for this reason. Any YA reader who is feeling a bit bored with the current books that are trending in our reading community will be greatly satisfied with this one (another perk is that since it doesn't really fit into one specific genre, it is sure to please readers with varying tastes in books, so no matter what genre you usually prefer, this book probably has some of it in it.)
I promise you will not regret reading this!