In fact, I think she has two scenes of significance where she makes her own decisions and isn't being escorted by a lover (both times waiting for rescue). This girl accepts on faith a mission to kill the man she is in love with, doesn't understand half of the ideas involved, and doesn't really even direct her own narrative until the very end. 80% of this book is introspective thought, usually about a boy, then the narrator, then family. Instead it's a book that too hard tries to make the tension from a love triangle last as long as possible. I thought this would be an updated version of Sliders from Sci-fi. Not going to point out an essay on the iPhone, but. 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.
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