My thoughts after reading A Thousand
Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
A Thousand Pieces of You was released
November 3, 2014 so hopefully I am not spoiling too much of the book for anyone
who has not read it yet. So what is this book about you ask. Well … I don’t
know why I am talking like that. Hopefully my thoughts don’t get jumbled into a
big ol’ summary of the book.
Before I get into the book, can I
just say this is one of the most beautiful book covers I have seen. Well… I
guess that not really fair for me to say since I think all book covers are
pretty. Well… except for the book covers that are reprinted with the movie
poster. It’s nothing against the movie, or the book. But it makes me feel like
saying it was a book first people! But at least more people will fall in love
with books.
Any who, enough of the wells and
buts. The wells are not my fault. All my wells I’ve learned from watching
Doctor Who. Major spoiler alert here, so cover your ears. The main character
Marguerite Caine is jumping dimensions chasing after Paul Markov, the guy who
murdered her father. Well allegedly murdered her father. (Sorry that is the
last well … maybe) Her and her parent’s research assistant, Theo are both traveling through different dimensions. Yeah, I guess you call Theo and Paul
that. I won’t get into the minutia of their titles. (@DimesnsAndGalxs I did it,
I used minutia)
One of the things that I did like
about the jumping dimension story is when the characters would jump from one
parallel universe to the other is they would jump into their other selves’
body. Huh? That did not make sense after I typed it. So when Marguerite goes
into a parallel universe instead of two separate hers she jumps into the alt
Marguerite’s body. Essentially she is taking charge of the other Marguerite’s
life etc. The same goes for Paul and Theo.
The characters are able to jump from
one parallel universe to the next with a device called a Firebird. With the
Firebird they are able to jump into the alt universe and remember who they are
and why they are there. Yes, to answer your question they do have to keep the
Firebird on at all times. Or else they will forget who they are and will become
lost in that dimension.
I will admit, and I mean not to
offend anyone who loves the book, but when I first started reading it I sopped
for a day or so because it started turned into a love story. I was like hey
what happened to the Sci-Fi stuff?
So when I picked up the book again,
with an open mind this time. It started to make some sense. One other interesting
thing about the jumping dimensions is they will always end up where they
belong. For example Marguerite always ends up in a version of her life where
her family is with her. In this case
having a “love story” is needed to illustrate the point about Paul’s belief in
fate. No matter which alternate universe Marguerite jumps to her version ends
up finding Paul. Who (even more major spoiler alert) is not the murderer.
A major part of the story is in
Russia around the 1800s ish give or take. In this universe Marguerite is a
Grand Duchess and Paul is a Lt. and her personal body guard. Don’t roll your
eyes just yet. Yes, it does turn out that the Marguerite that was their before
the main character Marguerite took over has feelings for Paul. But in this universe
Paul has lost his Firebird to his commanding officer for being out of uniform,
so he begins to forget everything. Her mother has passed away due to
complications from giving birth, but her father is still her birth father. He
is actually Grand Duchess Marguerite’s tutor.
I know it kind of seems typically
love story, until I read two words that made me say what? Paul dies. Then I was
like yeah my Sci-Fi, well at least nonlove story is back. It’s not until you
read later more of the book Paul got back his Firebird and was able to jump
into another dimension. Then it turns into another love story and end with a
love story.
Get ready for another spoiler, it
turns out Paul was trying to save Marguerite from Wyatt Conley, the CEO of an
evil corporation who wants to jump dimensions to steal technology. Conley is
after Marguerite because she can naturally remember who she is with or without
the Firebird. And it turns out since Conley has spies everywhere the Theo she
has been jumping universes with is not her Theo but a spy.
A Thousand Pieces of You is the first
book in a trilogy. Hopefully I did not sound like I didn’t like it. I did like
it. I mean who does not like a good love story from time to time. Right?
Anyone? My only wish was it could have been a little more Sci-Fi. Perhaps the
second book will have more Sci-Fi and the first book was for character
building. #SecondChances
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