katharine mcgee the thousandth floor series

The Tower is as much a character as the teens themselves. One can live and work within the Tower and never need leave, and even the parks have little micro-climates where they can make it rain on command. From the literal social stratification of the floors to the way teens (and everyone else) text and communicate via implants that display directly onto your retinas, the Tower feels like a real place. To be honest, the setting is a huge primary draw for me, as McGee has done an excellent job of building out a society that has adapted to life inside of one building.

THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR is a good old-fashioned soap opera set against the backdrop of a futuristic world, just far enough ahead to be fantastic, without being unrelatable. All these threads will come crashing together to result in that tragic night. And the queen bee of the social scene whose just returned from a stint in rehab, after a heartbreak sent her into a tail spin. A teen who takes a job as a maid for a wealthy family in order to support herself and her sister. Another with a brother who has suddenly returned to the Tower after a year’s absence. A girl who’s made a startling discovery about her family. But who was she and what led to her tragic demise? To understand that, we must go back two months, when the lives of several teenagers, some already friends and some strangers, began to slowly intersect in a web of relationships and secrets. It is from the top of this building that a young woman will fall to her death. At two and a half miles tall, it is essentially its own city, full of apartments for rich and poor alike, shopping, schools, parks and more. In the year 2118 in New York, there exists a thousand-story skyscraper.

Note: I was given a free ARC by the publisher in return for a fair and honest review.

Katharine mcgee the thousandth floor series