The Thousandth Floor (The Thousandth Floor, #1)

by Katharine McGee

[Nessa Luna]

Edit: After thinking about it for a while, I realised this book is more of a three-star than a four-star rating (okay three-and-a-half but still). So yeah, taking off one star.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a job interview. It went well, if I may say so, but they ended up not hiring me. To cheer myself up, I decided to go to my local bookstore, where I bought The Thousandth Floor. I had heard about it briefly on the internet and had seen pictures of that gorgeous cover, so I decided to just bring it with me. The fact that it took place a hundred years in the future was probably what got me so intrigued.

The Thousandth Floor tells the story of a couple of inhabitants of a gigantic tower built in New York City. We follow Leda, Avery, Eris, Rylin and Watt as they tell their story of what happened before that fateful night when a girl fell, jumped or got pushed off the thousandth floor.

Honestly, I hadn't expected this story to be a Gossip Girl type story but set in the future. The synopsis didn't really make me think that, and neither did the categories on Goodreads. It's not usually a book I would have picked up, but I guess the promise of futuristic gadgets and an immense thousand-floor tower that got me interested in this book. It was rather interesting, but this story could have just taken place in present-day, or even the past, and nothing would have changed at all.

I can't really say I liked any of the characters that much, because most of them seemed like those girls in high school that I would have avoided at all costs. Perhaps Rylin and Watt were a bit more likable, but still I couldn't get myself to like them that much. I did enjoy how the author added both rich characters and characters who lived below 'the hundredth floor' which is similar to the slumps.

There was a lot of drama going on in this book, obviously, and a lot of relationships happening and breaking as well. I liked Rylin's relationship and Eris' but the others weren't really my thing. The big thing that I absolutely hated about this story, which is also a huge reason for me not rating this book higher is the incest. Avery is in love with her brother Atlas, and he loves her back too; and yes I fully understand that they are not related by blood - Atlas was adopted and technically they aren't really doing anything gross but still. It was just gross and I really did not enjoy that part of the story at all

The prologue of the book was what really pulled me in, and I found it a bit of a shame that I had to go through almost 400 pages of chick-lit worthy story-telling before we finally found out what happened on the top of the tower. It was a bit of a plot-twist, as I had been contemplating throughout the book who the girl was and why she had gone over, but I honestly had not expected the thing that happened.

I heard there was going to be a sequel, but honestly I am not 100% sure if I'm going to pick it up. If you love Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars and you love science fiction, you should definitely pick up The Thousandth Floor.

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