We’re pretty different, for sisters-she’s average height while I’m tall she’s athletic while I’m anything but. I think we’re hitting most of the stereotypes that I dislike here. She is “average looking,” is constantly being saved by the attractive men in her life, and said attractive men trip all over themselves just to spend a moment in her exalted presence. Marguerite has a Premium Membership for the Typical YA Heroine Club, which means she is exactly the sort of character that I don’t like reading about. What I got instead was a wishy-washy attempt at believable Sci-Fi and a predictable love triangle with an obvious winner. Going into A Thousand Pieces of You, I was hoping for an inter-dimensional murder mystery with a headstrong heroine who was hellbent on bringing the gavel of justice swinging down on her father’s murderer, no matter how many worlds she had to travel to do it. And the murderer just so happens to be her parents’ trusted research assistant, Mr. Or at least she doesn’t, until that so-called mumbo-jumbo gets her physicist father killed. As an aspiring artist, Marguerite has no need for that science mumbo-jumbo in her life. While she spends her afternoons painting portraits in the comfort of her bedroom, her world-famous parents and her oceanographer sister crowd around the kitchen table to discuss the possible existence of other dimensions. In a family full of physicists, Marguerite’s right-brained tendencies set her apart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is far more sinister than she expected. Before long she begins to question Paul’s guilt-as well as her own heart. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows-including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways.
So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself.
Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. But then Marguerite’s father is murdered, and the killer-her parent’s handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul- escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes-and promises to revolutionize science forever. Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Published November 4th 2014 by Harper TeenĬlassified as Romance, Science-Fiction, & Young Adult
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