Book Rant: Firebird Trilogy

Where I rant about what I read and let loose my inner fangirl.

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Spoiler Free:

Before I say anything, can we all take a moment to appreciate those covers!?! (Confession: I bought these books solely based on the cover- I don’t think I even read the back.) The covers, which are designed by Craig Shields, feature a vibrant contrast of colors and two cities that play a major role to the plot mirroring each other. The covers themselves are amazing. Moving on- the trilogy follows teenage Marguerite Caine through the multiverse (I am not going to summarize anymore then that in order to keep it spoiler free). I would break the trilogy into two parts 1) her chase of Paul and determination to receive revenge for her father’s death and 2) her quest to save the multiverse. The first book focuses mainly on the first part while the second book introduces and follows Marguerite’s quest to protect the worlds. The concept of mutli-dimensional travel itself was intriguing and Claudia Gray did an amazing job leaving the real science out of it but still allowing the reader to grasp the concept. However, I was not a huge fan of the writing style and I felt at some moments like the writer used her ability to create this alternate reality in order to solve some problems when it was not too realistic. Then again the entire series was on inter-dimensional travel so I don’t know how realistic it all was. There would be moments when I would be interested in the dilemma a character was facing and I felt let down by the solution I was given. I did enjoy the ending though and in the end I would rate this series a 3.4 / 5 stars. (Don’t ask about the .4)

Spoiler Full:

I was very on and off throughout the entire series. I felt like too many characters were dying- oh wait we aren’t dead- whoops we died again- nevermind totally fine throughout the series. By the end when Paul “died” in Home Office it didn’t feel real in the slightest. The major moment when I decided I wasn’t happy with conflict resolution in the final book was in Cloneverse. Eight clones? Clones? EIGHT? The perfect amount to have everybody come together and talk- something we previously believed to be impossible. I was, however, really glad when Paul had to deal with some consequences from the splintering and was not just perfectly fine afterwards. All that being said there were a lot of things of the books that I enjoyed but I probably won’t be rereading anytime soon.