Publisher: HarperCollins
Series: The Thousandth Floor #1
Format: Hardcover, 437 pages
Source: Library
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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....
It was very easy to get swept up into the luxury world that came with living high in the Tower. After all, they had amazing technology such as contacts that received and sent messages with a nod or shake of the head. Retina scanners that allowed access to the wealthy areas of the Tower, holo scans that allowed you to see what clothes would actually look like on your body without trying anything on, and cleaning bots that made life easier.
Then there was the Tower itself. A thousand floors of apartments, shopping areas, spas, schools, restaurants, aquariums, and even a Central Park like structure. Nobody in the Tower ever really had to leave since everything was literally right there.
The cast of characters is relatively diverse. There are people of color, financial levels, and of course there are LGBT characters. Development wise, only Eris had the best development. She went from being a spoiled, materialistic high level rich girl to one who became humbled because of events in her life. The others were just meh because they didn't really change. Leda became even more crazy though.
Let's talk about the forbidden romance. It was gross. I don't care if Atlas was just her adopted brother. Incest is incest. It shouldn't be romanticized in media like it was.
Then there's the stalker boy. The perfect girl, Avery, essentially is stalked by Watt, the hacker, throughout the entire story. He's OBSESSED with her because she is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. I mean, that's one of the worst tropes ever. Guy wants girl only because she's gorgeous? Ugh. Gag me.
Many people have said that this is a futuristic Gossip Girl, and they are right. It definitely gave off that vibe.
The ending was really terrible, to be honest. They were all up there on the roof and could have easily overpowered Leda, but they stood there cowering before her while an innocent girl was murdered. Not only that, the one with the best character development was killed off.
This book had SO much potential to be amazing but it was just not done right. Too much focus was put on the incest plot and not much else.
I am only going to finish the series because I want to read about Leda getting what she deserves.
I'm just as curious what's going to happen next, but I do share your opinion! Great review :)
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