Marguerite's parents, two genial scientists, have figured out the existence of alternate dimensions and how to travel between them. After her Dad gets murdered and the suspect, her parent's favorite student Paul, leaps into another dimension, Marguerite follows him with the help of another student called Theo to avenge her father's death.
"Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there."
I'm not the biggest fan of dystopian / sci-fi novels right now, so I was rather skeptical when I started reading this book, but it didn't dissappoint and I actually liked it quite a bit. It's a solid story and I can't say I didn't enjoy reading it, even though it does have a lot of these typical dystopian YA novels aspects in it. Since I haven't read a lot of these in the past few months, this was an rather painful reminder of how much f*cking love triangles s*ck. Seriously, why are they in basically every YA book? They're just so horrible and frustrating and I can't see how anyone could possibly enjoy them. If it wasn't for that crap, this novel would've been so much better, since I actually like the principle of the story. I think it's very interesting to think about the existence of alternate dimensions and wonder about how you would've turned out if a certain event that shaped you a lot never happened or you made a different decision at some point. I loved not only seeing how the main character's situation and surroundings, but also the whole world changed every time a new dimension is introduced. The world building is good, so exploring each new dimension was one of my favorite parts of this book for sure. I was pretty suprised to see that everything added up and the author didn't make a mistake with the timelines and different dimensions since that's what usually happens if characters in a book jump through time and space. The writing is okay, to be honest I didn't like it a lot, but I can't really determine exactly what bothered me about it, I guess I'm just used to a superior writing style because of the books I've recently been reading. It's pretty fast-paced and while it's not that suspense-packed it's definitely not boring and overall quite enjoyable.
I sadly had my problems with the characters since I couldn't identify with them a lot which leads to me just not caring about them. I'm sure the main character Marguerite is a lovely and nice girl, but it's fairly difficult to actually concentrate on learning more about her character because the stupid love triangle is bothering you all the freaking time. Is it really that hard to choose between two evenly great guys? Once she settled on one of them, she wasn't even capable of deciding which of the different versions of him in the different dimensions she wanted. I mean, it's totally not like they're basically the same person anyway. This whole dilemma makes her too annyoing at times to truly like her for me. The other two main characters Paul and Theo are okay, they're not really original or special and I'm sure I'll forget all about them in a few weeks, but at least it wasn't super frustrating to read about them. Who I did like are the minor characters like Marguerite's family and meeting them (or sometimes not meeting them) in the different dimensions is amazing and I was alsways happy to have one of them appear. By the way, is it weird I shipped Marguerite's parents more than I shipped her with either of her love interests?
Anyway, if you're looking for a light and quick read or you maybe even need something to get out of a reading slump, definitely check this book out. Also, the cover is unbelievably gorgeous so it's gonna look amazing on your book shelf, it sure does on mine.
Rating: 3/5 ✹
I'm sorry I'm not able to post more often than once a week at the moment since there's a lot going on regarding my last two years of school right now. I hope you enjoyed this review and you're having an amazing day!
Leah
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