I feel like the time has passed for this book. YA has moved on so much and this just isn't as good as it would have been if I'd read it a few years ago.

It's still an enjoyable YA with some really strong characters though.

Unfortunately I no longer wish to review this book as the first few chapters did not reel me in. Thank you for the opportunity.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to read and review this book.

After losing and replacing my broken Kindle and getting a new phone I was unable to download the title again for review as it was no longer available on Netgalley.

I’m really sorry about this and hope that it won’t affect you allowing me to read and review your titles in the future.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.
Natalie.

The Thousandth Floor was a quick, addictive read. At first I found the multiple narrators to be confusing but quickly was able to tell who was who. This is a fun book for teens who are looking for some friend drama.

Sadly the concept of this book no longer interests me. I tried to read it several times and I just haven't been able to get into it. That doesn't mean that it isn't a good book, however, it just isn't for me. I wish the author the best of luck with this and any future releases

I downloaded this ARC on the 7th July last year, that’s how long I’ve had this book. It’s a good thing I’m trying to get through my ARCs, though hopefully for next week I’ll pick an ARC that doesn’t cause me to go into an ARC slump. The second book in this series has already come out and this book took me two months to read. This book should not have taken me this long.

This book is about a tower that is a thousand floors high and, of course, we focus on the people who live on the 1000th floor. Does it look at the tech and the futuristic setting? Not as much as I would like, though I did like what we saw so far. The technology and how it affects the culture was interesting and it would have been nice to see more of the difference outside of the tower. We cycle between several points of view, Avery, the genetically modified ‘perfect’ human (far less exciting than it sounds), Leda, a recovering drug user who is obsessed with Avery’s brother, Eris, who learns a really uncomfortable secret about her family as the story starts, Rylin, who works on the 1000th floor, and Watt, a hacker who also works on the 1000th floor, sort of. Confused yet? These people all intersect and the story gradually brings them closer and closer together.

There isn’t much of a plot apart from all the characters having secrets, mostly to do with each other, and trying to hide them. Drug use, murder, rape, incest and adultery all come up in this book and only some of them are treated as they should. I would have been okay with this plot, I raced through the last quarter of the book because I wanted to finish this book, if it wasn’t so damn long. This book could have been 100 pages shorter and would have been a better book for it. None of the characters were particularly likeable and in the middle of the book, none of them were very interesting either. I liked Watt and Eris most of all, though they still had their problems.

Several of the most frustrating issues with this book are spoilers so I’ll just touch on a couple – Avery is meant to be the ‘perfect’ human who is so inhumanly beautiful people stop and stare at her. And of course, she’s a blonde white girl. Unfortunate implications much? And then there’s the whole ‘adoption isn’t real family’. Avery brings this up and Atlas brings this up, with the implication being that since Atlas was adopted later in life, they were never ‘real’ siblings. Can I talk about how much I hated this trope? I’ve seen it way too often recently.

This is a slightly more negative review than I normally give, but I will say that despite all of this, I’ve got the next book out of the library (on audiobook because I’m not doing this to myself again) because the ending of the book had me hooked. If the dull middle of the book had been removed, I would have been more inclined to give this a higher rating.

2.5 stars!

The concept in this one intrigued me a lot!It has some really brilliant ideas!I have some issues though,I couldn't understand what is happening in some parts. But once I got it sorted I became pretty invested in each character and how their plot line went.The story starts with the inevitable end: a girl falling off the Tower from a party on the thousandth floor. We don't know who she is, how she got there, or how she ends up falling two and a half miles to her death.Interesting right?I would recommend it as something unique and different!

I had no idea what to expect when I started The Thounsandth Floor but I found myself quickly immersed in the story and the characters. I stayed up all night to finish it. I couldn't put it down. An amazing blend of drama, secrets and friendship

DNFd this after dragging myself through a few chapters and hating every word

Teen drama version of JG Ballard's High Rise, which made me take away a star. Otherwise it was an ok read, and I suppose a teenage girl would like it.

This book is set in Manhattan in the future year of 2118. It's a cross between Clueless and Mean Girls, think rich kids spending their parents money and trying to out do their friends in the process. It is a YA novel but I was intrigued by the futuristic setting.

I found the book a little hard going to begin with and I thought the book was just going to turn out to be about a bunch of rich kids in the future. However, once the book began to address some very deep issues and the characters began to be fleshed out more I was drawn in, hook, line and sinker.

The parts of the book I loved the most were the descriptions of the tech of the future. A future were just the blink of the eye can issue commands and contact other people. One of the characters takes it a little further and has AI as an integral part of his brain. This was an aspect of the book that I found fascinating.

Life may be very tech orientated and glitzy on the Thousandth floor but the lower you travel down the tower the people are much less privileged and so this gave another twist to the story. People from the different floors interacting and finding out that without the technology and underneath the surface glitz they aren't that different after all. Some people got to go up the tower and experience things they never dreamt of and others ended up down the bottom of the tower stripped of their former life.There were so many different plot lines, but they all weaved together to form a brilliant and cohesive story.

I was surprised by the ending - so much so that I never really thought of there being another book. But, now I want to read that book.

I'm giving this book four out of stars. My thanks to Netgalley for a copy of the book to review

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is review is spoiler-free.



I’m going to start off by saying that I’ve never read or watched Gossip Girl. Shocking, I know. Why do I mention this? The Thousandth Floor has been heavily promoted as ‘Gossip Girl in the 22nd century’. I can go in for some fun drama if it’s well done, so I decided to pick this up. I have a lot of mixed feelings about The Thousandth Floor, as you can probably see from my rating, but I do think that this all comes down to taste.





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….*



Plot and World

The funny thing about The Thousandth Floor is that is has a great beginning and a great ending. The book starts with a girl falling from the top of the thousand-storey skyscraper that now makes up the island of Manhattan. Great start! The book then flashes back and builds up to the events that led to said girl falling. Great finish! But everything in between? Meh. It was 300 pages of me wanting to shake each and every one of these kids and ask them what the heck they think they’re doing. I hated every decision every character made. No one seemed to do the rational thing, everyone was just so selfish, and they were all just so…foolish. I don’t buy into the idea that all teenagers just act like this – I was a teenager once, dammit.

I do think that my reaction to this is just matter of taste though – there’s nothing wrong with McGee’s writing style. In fact, I quite liked the way she pulled these five stories together. The world that she builds is really interesting. She comes up with some incredible technology that maybe gets a few mentions in one scene, then never again. The boozy bubbles at Eris’s birthday are a great example of this. What an incredibly cool concept! I feel like she could have skimped on the details, but the fact that she didn’t really added to the story. One of the best things about science fiction is the incredible technology that authors can dream up!



Characters

My friend Sophie put it best on Goodreads: ‘So…. can they ALL be pitched off the top of the tower? That’d be greaaaaaat…’.

It really sucks to say this, but I hated every single one of these characters. I’m not sure if we’re supposed to hate them or not, so I’m just going to say they were intentionally written to be awful in order to add excitement and drama. I just couldn’t care less about a single one of them, even the ones dealing with relatable and tragic situations like divorce or the death of a parent. They were all just awful in their own special way. Even Avery, who is supposed to be the shining example of a good person, was so self absorbed that she couldn’t see what her actions did to other people. Leda is by far the worst of all of them, although I started out sympathising with her. I think that of everyone, the only person I liked was poor Cord. He doesn’t get a single PoV chapter, though. Because of spoilers, I wont go into the intricacies of the character interactions and decisions, but I found them incredibly frustrating. This book made me feel like such a cranky old lady.

The one thing I will mention that I had a huge problem with is Avery and her romance. You find this out within the first few pages of the novel – the great love of her life is her brother. Her brother! Yes, her brother. Okay, so he’s her adopted brother, but they’ve been living as siblings since she was a very young child. They are, for all intents and purposes, siblings. I know some people are okay with the but-they’re-not-really-blood-related thing, but no. I’m sorry, no. No. Absolutely not. I don’t care how cute his he, he’s your brother. This really took me straight out of the book and added a serious ‘ick’ factor. Yikes.

Overall, I really liked the concept of The Thousandth Floor, but there was just so much that was problematic for me. I really struggled with some of the plot points and the characters, but I really liked the world that McGee builds. However, just because this book wasn’t for me, doesn’t mean it wont be for you. I do think that it will really resonate with fans of Gossip Girl and similar books and TV shows.

Despite my complaints, I’ll be reading The Dazzling Heights because of the way The Thousandth Floor ends. Dammit.


*Copy courtesy of Goodreads

I would highly recommend this book to lover of Gossip Girl. This book is oh so scandalous!

I could see The Thousandth Floor being turned into a tv show, its so good! It shows the contrast of all the rich kids and the "downstairs" kids who aren't as fortunate. I loved the drama all these kids had, it's so different to most of the things I read at the moment.

It is set in the future and as a consequence you get to read about all this technology and I was just mind blown and what the kids did with all the technology is so accurate.

I cannot wait to read the next book especially after that ending!

A fast-paced, intricate story following a group of teens who all live in a futuristic New York, where the vast majority of the population are housed inside a tower that reaches one thousand floors, or three miles into the sky. Told from the points of view of Avery - whose family live in the penthouse, her best friends Eris, and Leda, and downtowners Rylin and Watt, the story unfolds as the five, plus their various other friends and lovers, come together. It's a whirlwind read, reminiscent of The 100, as secrets and lives unfold and threaten everyone, and it turns out no one is quite who they're pretending to be..

This was an excellent read that I have already recommended to several people. There are several difficult subjects that were addressed throughly, with sensitivity and in a non-judgemental manner. My only disappointment was with the way the book ended - I feel the ending was too abrupt, and that a few story threads were simply tidied away instead of being addressed as fully as they deserved.

This book made me feel uncomfortable and unhappy. Unfortunately I was unable to continue reading it to the end. I found it to be overly dramatic, too heavily influenced by gossip girl and just really trivial. I didn't like the romantic elements of the story and for that reason I had to stop reading the book.

The Thousandth Floor opens with a beautiful girl falling to her death from the roof of a thousandth floor building, and what follows is a wonderful mash up of every American high school drama I've ever had the pleasure of watching.

This was a complete guilty read for me. I was drawn really easily into all the characters lives, and quickly got caught up in all the secrets and dramas. Avery, beautiful and perfect living in the penthouse, but hiding a dark secret. Eris, who suddenly finds herself having to leave the dizzying heights of the upTowers. Leda, freshly out of rehab and trying to get back on track after her night with Avery's brother Atlas. Watt, hacking expert and quant builder. Rylin, down and out maid who finds an unlikely friendship with her employer. I thought the overall ideas were great, and I enjoyed the fact that the setting was a dystopian type future. If anything I would have liked to have read a little bit more about this world - there was hardly any world building involved in the development of the story, with no explanation as to why there as a thousand storey high building in New York.

If anything there were also maybe too many characters. As I've mentioned before, I'm not a massive fan of multiple points of view, and I found I would skim chapters to get to the more interesting characters - such as Eris and Avery. I also found the characters lacked a great amount of depth to them. Most seemed very one dimensional, and the writing at times seemed very lacking in any real emotion. The ending also left too many things unanswered for me. However, having said all this I still found the book highly enjoyable. I couldn't put it down. A bit like all those American dramas I watch on Netflix. If you love Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl you'll love this.

Was it high brow or intellectual? No. But was it fun and entertaining? Hell yes.

Not my usual kind of book, but I really got caught up in the lives of the characters in this and just had to keep reading. I really enjoyed that you don't find out who the dying girl is until almost the very end, when all the threads come together. This keeps you guessing. Can't wait for book 2.

I'm unfortunately no longer interested in reading this book so I will not be posting a review.

Sadly I didn't login in time to download the title before it was archived.