Marguerite has her father back, and she is finally with her destined love, Paul. But the devious Wyatt Conley still wants to control her, and he will scatter Paul's soul across dimensions in order to do so. She must trust her friend Theo, while ignoring both his love for her and how his parallel self betrayed her, in order to save Paul and the worlds she visits from utter annihilation. In this sequel to A Thousand Pieces of You (2014), Marguerite comes to some startling realizations, not the least of which is that fate and destiny may be less powerful than she'd previously imagined. Her feelings toward both Paul and Theo form the basis of the book, which sometimes makes the plot drag, but the real excitement lies in her adventures in various parallel worlds. Gray gives enough science to make her plot seem believable but doesn't overload readers which too much minutiae. The result is a fun romance with a plucky main character and a dramatic cliff-hanger ending.

Gr 10 Up-This follow-up to A Thousand Pieces of You (HarperCollins, 2014) blends elements of science fiction, time travel, and romance. Eighteen-year-old Marguerite and her 20-something friend Theo travel to alternate realities including Renaissance Rome, an alternative San Francisco at war, and the futuristic "home office" of the evil Triad corporation to rescue fragments of the splintered soul of Marguerite's boyfriend, Paul. As she meets different versions of Paul, Theo, and her family, the heroine begins to question her earlier notions of destiny and of people's essential natures. The protagonist's journeys form a travelogue of sorts, and her descriptions of alternate Earth cities and the ways these settings have changed her loved ones' characters are the strongest parts of the book. The parallel worlds allow readers to wonder how different they would be if they lived in different circumstances. Explanations of the mechanics and limits of dimensional travel are skimpy and a bit forced, but that won't bother fans of the previous volume. Attractive characters, plenty of suspense and danger, and a cliff-hanger ending add to the story's appeal. The characters' age and some sexual situations make the book best suited for older teens. VERDICT Purchase where the first title is popular. Beth Wright Redford, Richmond Elementary School Library, VT

In Ten Thousand Skies Above You, the sequel to A Thousand Pieces of You (HarperTeen, 2014/VOYA December 2014), Gray brings back Marguerite, Paul, and Theo.áWith the help of the Firebird she wears on a chain around her neck, Marguerite travels through time and space to fulfill her mission to find each splinterátakenáfrom her boyfriend Paul's soul. When Marguerite vanishes from one time period, she pops into herself in a different one without any knowledge of what might be happening at that moment, whether Paul will be there, or whether her last visit to this life was influenced by her previous visit. The possibilities tantalize. On this mission, Theo assists, for though he also loves Marguerite, he knows she loves his best friend, Paul.The other-world scenes are wonderful, well planned and written, exciting, and suspenseful, with just enough detail of the time period to make it feel like reality, but the threads that should hold these vignettes together are not developed. Perhaps in the first book the author explained how physical copies of Marguerite and Leo, sometimes with a few modifications, are in each of these different timescapes, with their personalities varying on a sliding scale. Still, reading these books is a wonderful escape into imaging the possibilities of time travel.cj Bott.