The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

The Thousandth Floor (The Thousandth Floor, #1)

by Katharine McGee

Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.

A thousand-storey tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible - if you want it enough.

A hundred years in the future, New York's elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world. Everyone wants something... and everyone has something to lose.

As the privileged inhabitants of the upper floors recklessly navigate the successes and pitfalls of the luxury life, forbidden desires are indulged and carefree lives teeter on the brink of catastrophe. Whilst lower-floor workers are tempted by a world - and unexpected romance - dangling just out of reach. And 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.

So when a young woman falls from the top of the supertower, her death is the culmination of a scandal that has ensnared the top-floor elite and bottom-floor. But who plummeted from the roof? And what dark secrets led to her fall?

Friends will be betrayed and enemies forged as promises are broken. When you're this high up, there's nowhere to go but down...

Reviewed by Sam@WLABB on

4 of 5 stars

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The thousandth floor is the top floor of The Tower, which is a building that is essentially a microcosm of Manhattan as we know it. The wealthier you are, the higher up you live. This book is told from multiple POVs from various heights of the Tower, and thus, various socio-economic levels in futuristic NY. Avery, Eris, and Leda all enjoy life at the top, while Watt and Rylin are “downTower”.

I will not lie, sometimes, I just want a frothy, drama-filled, soap-opera like read, and that is what I got with The Thousandth Floor. Each character has some dirty little secret, and their lives became more and more complicated as they tried to keep that secret under wraps. I enjoyed collecting all the sordid tidbits, and never lost sight of the overarching mystery — who fell from the thousandth floor. There were characters I loved to loved (Eris) and characters I loved to hate (Leda). The futuristic elements were quite fun, and I found myself sometimes wishing I had that thing now.

The Thousandth Floor delivered a story filled with drama and tangled webs, which kept me throughly entertained.

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