It was sweet and unique in all the right ways. Overall, I am pretty impressed with this book. You cross it the first time you know you can never go back.' - A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray You cross the boundary the first time you're changed forever. Not the crap they claim it is- graduating high school or losing your virginity or getting your first apartment or whatever. This, I think, is the boundary line of adulthood. You'll forget who you were without it you'll forget what you looked like without your scars. What people really mean is that eventually you'll get get used to the pain. They say 'time heals,' but even now, less than a week after my father's death, I know that is a lie. Something has been torn out from inside that will never be filled up, not ever, no matter how long I love. It sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within. Is she doomed to repeat the same betrayal?Īs Marguerite races through these wildly different lives - a grand duchess in a Tsarist Russia, a club-hopping orphan in a futuristic London, a refugee from worldwide flooding on a station in the heart of the ocean - she is swept into an epic love affair as dangerous as it is irresistible. In each new world Marguerite leaps to, she meets another version of Paul that has her doubting his guilt and questioning her heart.

With the help of another physics student, Theo, Marguerite chases Paul through various dimensions. She doesn't know if she can kill a man, but she's going to find out. Before the law can touch him, Paul escapes into another dimension, having committed what seems like the perfect crime. When Marguerite's father is murdered, all the evidence points to one person - Paul, her parents' enigmatic star student. Yet nothing is more astounding than her mother's latest invention - a device called the Firebird, which allows people to leap into alternate dimensions. Marguerite Caine grew up surrounded by cutting-edge scientific theories, thanks to her brilliant physicist parents.

A thousand pieces of you