Occasionally, the traveler may be required to use a reminder, a jolt of pain that allows them to regain consciousness in dimensions that are not their own, and if the Firebird is ever removed a reminder is necessary to remind them who and where they are. Once the traveler has arrived in the dimension, the version of them that they are taking over loses control of their thoughts and actions, but once the traveler changes dimensions that version of them regains control. For example, Marguerite can’t go to a dimension that her parents were not together in at some time, because that would mean that she would not exist in that dimension. In each dimension, a traveler can only visit if there is an equivalent of them in that dimension. Basically, the dimension-travel in this book is capable through the Firebird, a device that hangs on a chain around the traveler’s neck (like a necklace). Perhaps that is just because science has never been a strong point of mine, and I have a tendency to just give up in trying to understand things once science becomes involved. I think the concept was explained well enough, however in some parts I was still a little confused about it.

I think it may be one of my favourite genres, and I was so excited to read this book for that reason. I love time-travel/dimension-travel books. But what Marguerite discovers throughout her dimensional travel is that everything is not as it seems, and that something greater than avenging her Father’s death is taking place. Marguerite and another grad student and friend of her parents, Theo, take the remaining two Firebirds and follow Paul into different dimensions to avenge her Father. When Marguerite’s Father is murdered, all the evidence points to her parent’s grad student Paul, who has taken off with the Firebird into another dimension.

It follows Marguerite Caine, the daughter of two physicists who have created a device called the Firebird that allows a person to travel to different dimensions. Pretty cover aside the story itself is also pretty spectacular, and definitely one of my favourites that I’ve read this year.Ī Thousand Pieces of You is an alternate dimension kind of book. It makes me so excited to see what the sequel covers will look like. LOOK AT THAT COVER! It’s one of the most beautiful covers I have ever seen. Hands down and without a doubt, A Thousand Pieces of You wins the prettiest book of the year award.

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