Hard to imagine, considering her parents are the inventors of the Firebird, a multi-dimensional traveling device that becomes the focal point–and the plot-mover–of the book. In her world, she is sort of the black sheep of the family–while her brain isn’t completely out of left field, Marguerite chose to follow the artistic route rather than her family’s scientific calling. Marguerite Caine is the daughter of two famous and brilliant scientists. Let’s backtrack a bit before I start raving about things first. It’s a young adult book, so it reads like a young adult book, with young adult problems. So…kind of like Dark Matter right? Except for young adults and a less complicated explanation of how the multiverse works? And, honestly, I already said “hell yes” to the fact that this book has a multiverse. Now that that’s over with… Dammit, romanceĪgain, this is probably another case where I didn’t read the book jacket summary in its entirety, and most of what I’d known about this book was that it dealt with the multiverse. But this? Claudia Gray was blessed with the cover gods. That said, yes, this is definitely me judging the book by its cover, and normally I let the premise and the title take me along the ride. Okay, so can we talk about the cover just a wee bit? Because how could anyone not talk about the gorgeousness of it? Seriously, I would have picked it up out of a bookstore just because of the colors alone. 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.

A thousand pieces of you trilogy