Book – The Thousandth Floor
Author – Katharine McGee
Rate – 1/5
Synopsis – 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. Everyone there 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 this 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 for 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.
Amid breathtaking advancement and high-tech luxury, five teenagers struggle to find their place at the top of the world. But when you’re this high up, there’s nowhere to go but down.
R E V I E V :-
Up here on the roof, so close to the stars, she felt young and alive and hateful.
This book is set in 2118. New York has a tower containing thousand floors. It has everything like spas, Central Park, GYM, apartments etc. The rich lives on the top floor while all th poor are clustered in the ground floors. That was the first thing that made me attracted to this book. The concept is good and different. Don’t you think so? I love books set in future.
But then why am I so disappointed?
I couldn’t even finish this book. At 203 page I gave up. I don’t know why I was even reading this book. This book is perfect for Gossip girls fans who want to know what rich people do in life and their inner dirty secrets. The starting felt the same. Leda sleeping with Atlas and then Leda going to rehab like Blair sleeping with Nathan and going to rehab. Hey, get a new story. Don’t copy it from some TV series.
First thing I want in book is to make me care about the characters, make me fall in love with them that I can’t seem to stop reading it and feel urge to read more. Five point of views made the story hard to understand. Whenever I felt connected to Avery, the POV changed and so all with others. I seem to understand one character and boom the POV is changed. I’m not much into multi POV except in the case of Throne of Glass series. But in Sci-if? Not much.
I had no interest in knowing about the characters shallow lives (Avery, Eris and Leda). The girl characters were boring even if the writing style was nice. But reading so many multi POV made it all confused and the concept too. Many times, I lost where the story was going. I wanted to skip the POV of some characters but couldn’t. Every character POV connected to another.
I felt the characters are shallow and whiny. The plot has so much power in it but something fell down. The story felt too flat. At rich people problems, I practically rolled my eyes. Their were drugs, blackmail, love triangles, losing parents, being poor, doing illegal work, and so much more. It would have been better if it focused on two or three things instead of mixing all and presenting it. Romance wasn’t that good. Some were boring while some did engaged me but not to the point to make me continue it. I hated the incest thing too. Seriously brother and sister (Atlas and Avery)? Even if Atlas was adopted, it didn’t change anything. That was one of the reason why I had stopped reading.
I waited for this and it was not a worth it. All the five characters were boring and their problems weren’t even cry or ache worthy or the emotions weren’t depict correctly. Even after 200 pages, I couldn’t put my whole interest in the book.
But if you’re Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liar fan, you may like it. I had left that stuff a long time ago and need something different. This book isn’t for me. The story had too much potential. It could have been better.
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