Anja H.'s Reviews > A Thousand Pieces of You

*2 AVERAGE STARS*

"Every form of art is another way of seeing the world."

Let me just cut right to the chase: I didn't like this book.
When I first read the plot and saw the stunning cover, I thought this was going to be awesome and badass but in the end this book left me really disappointed. The whole plot with the time travel and different dimensions could have been really interesting, but the author didn't use it to their full potential in my opinion. So much more could've happened but this book only contained three dimensions, in which Marguerite started this weird love quadrangle involving Theo and two Pauls (yeah, you read that right), and it left me completely confused.

I can't really put my finger on what exactly I didn't like about this. I mean, I definitely loved the whole idea of time travel, but not the way they went about it. The first 100 started off quite good, but it all went downhill from the moment Marguerite caught Paul. Claudia Gray's writing style was good, but not great. Every time Marguerite changed dimensions, I felt like she was running away from the problems she caused in the previous one.
And even though all the characters in this book are older than some of the other young adult book characters out there, they somehow seemed really juvenile and childish to me, especially with all the dumb decisions they made.

The one character I really liked is Russia's Lieutenant Paul Markov, I mean, he's just so sweet and not as distant as the original one, but oh man, I didn't like the insta-love-thing that happened between him and Marguerite. And then when she feels attracted to the Paul from her own dimension, which I don't get because he's an antisocial awkward turtle, she thinks that she's cheating on the Russian one.. I mean, come on! I do like Theo as a character but I don't really ship Marguerite with anyone, which is weird for me because I'm usually an avid shipper. I just didn't really connect with any of the characters.

Honestly, I found the whole story to be quite boring. There was way too much focus on the weird romance and not enough action and suspense. This book ends with a happy ending, so I'm really unsure about what they'll do with the next two books, as it seems like this is going to be a trilogy.
Since I've decided that I'm only going to be reading books and series I really want to read from now on, I won't torture myself with trying to continue this series.