Review — The Thousandth Floor

Title: The Thousandth Floor

Title in spanish: El Piso Mil

Author: Katharine McGee

Pages: 478

Published:  August 30th 2016 by HarperCollins 

Saga: 1 Of 3 (Trilogy The Thousandth Floor)

ISBN: 9780062418593

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....

Hello everyone! I started my blog with this review in Spanish and now I'm going to translate it into English. The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee is the first book I read in 2018. I wanted to read it last year, and now that I did it, I am very impressed. It’s one of my favourite books. 

This book drives you to a luxurious and futuristic society that Katharine McGee gives us, which entangles and bring us to a series of intriguing events beginning with the fall of a girl from the highest floor of that society.

Her writing skills are very good, she doesn't beat about the bush so it's easy to read, she’s not like other writers that use to digress in the descriptions, Katharine McGee goes directly to the action so we can understand rapidly what she wants to say.

The story is set in the year 2118, with a cutting-edge and very advanced technology. The society is divided in social classes, the richer families live on the upper floors; and in the lower floors live the poorest families.

The book is about a girl who falls down from the last floor of the New York's Tower. The prologue describes the fall. All the events that happened two months before the fall are narrated in the first chapter, explaining why and how the girl fall down.

There are five narrators, Avery, Leda, Eris, Watt and Rylin. The story is told in third person from the point of view of each of them. Through the chapters we can observe the evolution of the characters, how they think and the personality of each one of them.

The novel has a pretty fast rhythm that hooks you from the beginning. If you really like Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars, you are going to love this book, 'cause it has that kind of essence.

This book explains us a society full of secrets, treason, betrayal and love. You will fall in love with the book and his characters. It captivates you so much that you need to go on reading until you finish the book.

Well fellas, that was all. I hope you read this amazing and wonderful book full of secrets and love. If you don’t, you're missing an awesome book!

5/5

Translated by Maria Portales