The Thousandth Floor
Author: Katharine McGee
Release date: 30/08/2016
Publisher/Source: HarperTeen
Genre: Young Adult / SciFi
Synopsis (Goodreads) New York City as
you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A
glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it
enough.
Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.
A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose.
Leda Cole’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.
Eris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.
Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will her new life cost Rylin her old one?
Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.
And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.
Debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall….
Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.
A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose.
Leda Cole’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.
Eris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.
Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will her new life cost Rylin her old one?
Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.
And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.
Debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall….
Review: 3 out of 5 stars
I almost didn’t finish
reading The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee, I was fascinated by the
futuristic premise but I found the start confusing and with it being told from
so many POV’s, I couldn’t initially connect with any of them.
The Thousandth Floor
is set in the year 2118 in a high tech NY City tower, the higher up in the
tower that you live then the richer you are; the lower the level the poorer.
At the beginning of the
book, someone falls from the thousandth floor, throughout the book we try to
determine who it is or who we’d want it to be, I certainly tried to guess but I
guessed completely wrong. We meet everyone two months prior to this event.
The characters:
Each of the characters were interesting but none of them really
wowed me and I wasn’t fully invested. What I did enjoy is how they were
all connected in one way or another.
We meet Avery Fuller who
lives on the highest level with her parents, her brother is Atlas and she was
genetically created to be perfect. I couldn’t quite figure her out but I was
most curious about her life.
Rylin Myer is a character I
felt for, taking on numerous jobs to take care of her sister after the death of
her mother; she takes up an opportunity to work on a higher floor but doesn’t
realise how it will change her life. She was an interesting character.
Eris Dodd-Radson is a fascinating
character and Avery’s oldest friend; we see her life slowly spiral out of
control as the book progresses.
Watt Bakradi is intelligent
and a great hacker, he is secretive and for good reason.
Leda Cole is Avery’s best
friend and is fresh out of rehab for being addicted to drugs, she has many
secrets that she holds close to her chest. She was my least favourite
character.
Setting / World-building / Plot:
The tower was a unique
setting and I enjoyed learning about how it all came to be. We aren’t inundated
with a lot of information but there are aspects that could be further explored.
The futuristic aspect
is one that I appreciated, with all of the advanced technology explanations and
advancements, I thought that it was written well. It’s a vast and intriguing
world and showed what wealth depending on the tower level could afford.
I liked the mystery
aspect, the ongoing drama and the complex relationships between the characters;
learning about their lives, their secrets and their families was entertaining
and kept me wanting to know more. I especially curious to learn about who had fallen at the beginning of the book.
Overall:
As I mentioned, I
almost didn’t continue this book; I found the pacing at the beginning to be
slow and there were too many character POV’s for me but as I continued each
stood out for themselves and I became intrigued by the mystery within the
tower.
Katharine McGee’s
writing is gripping and the overall story is mysterious and engaging. The
Thousandth Floor is a nice debut.
Thank you to
HarperTeen via Edelweiss for the opportunity to read and review The Thousandth
Floor.
