Series : Firebird trilogy
Author : Claudia Gray
Title : A Thousand Pieces of You, Ten Thousand Skies Above You, A Million Worlds With You
Genre : YA Science fiction
I’m going to keep this review short because I don’t want to give out any spoilers. I read the first two books of the series around two years ago, and had full intention to follow up on the last book whenever it releases (though of course I didn’t do it). Finally, last week, I picked A Millions Worlds With You on a whim, because I knew that if I didn’t get to the book this year, I probably never would. And that was it! I read the book and I’m here with the review :)
The story revolves around a device called Firebird which basically helps people transport between dimensions – between different timelines and worlds all including the same characters. The logic is basically that there are countless possibilities of how one’s life could’ve turned out, and with each individual choice that one makes, there is a new world formed and a new dimension forms of these different choices made. The plot chases our main characters who’re after the bad guy (who’s well, trying to do bad stuff) and that is about how much I can tell you. Read the books to find the rest out!
Okay, so reviewing this series is really weird for me. I read the first two books so long ago and my whole style and type of reading, along with the way I critic books has completely changed and I don’t know how to go about this. I was blown away by the first two books, but there were a lot of things in the third book which made me feel like this is just a mediocre series and I don’t whether it is because of the third book being especially mediocre or whether my reading taste having changed.
Firstly, the concept is really good. This is something I agree even now, even though I wasn’t the hugest fan of the third book. It’s an interesting, cool plotline and it holds you attention. I don’t think I’ve read a lot of books which involve dimensions; the nearest you can come to this is time travel but that’s also a completely different thing altogether.
The writing, I’m not the hugest fan now. I loved it two years ago; it was fast-paced, engaging and just overall a very well-written sci-fi to me. But now, it’s just okay. There’s nothing special about it and it’s a very plainly written series.
The characters, I still do like. They’re well-crafted and have flesh to them. I’m not the hugest fan of the villain (I thought he was poorly done) but everyone else was pretty good. The romance, on the other hand, was a lot more cringy reading it now than when I read it two years back. There was this constant talk of ‘fate’ and the main characters ending up together and I just find all this in YA books really annoying now.
Reading it now, I wouldn’t rate the series too highly, but for a little younger me, these books were mindblowing. I’d say, if you’re just getting into YA or if you like it enough to not feel a little tired of it, you can definitely go ahead with it. But if like me, you’re picky about the books you read, especially YA, I’d say give this a miss.
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