![]() ![]() Replete with romance, jealousy, and enticing future fashions and tech, McGee’s story delivers more than enough drama and excitement to hook readers and leave them anticipating the next book in the trilogy. Watt, a computer genius, creates an illegal “quant” named Nadia that helps him navigate the social structure of the tower. Rylin, an orphan, takes a job as a maid for spoiled Cord Anderton, only to begin an uncertain courtship. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Eris’s perfect life crumbles when she learns that her father is not her biological father and, therefore, she and her mother are penniless. ![]() Avery is always the most beautiful girl in the room, much to the chagrin of her best friend Leda, who is hiding a serious drug addiction. The Thousandth Floor By Katharine McGee Publisher: HarperCollinsPublication Date: August 30th, 2016Pages: 441Date Read: March 7th, 2020Rating: 3 Stars WELCOME TO MANHATTAN, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. And that is exactly what it was The world she has created is very imaginative with lots of technology and machinery that is subtly clever. Read Common Sense Medias The Thousandth Floor, Book 1 review, age rating, and parents guide. For my November book club we read The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee which I was extremely excited to read as it looked like a science fiction version of Gossip Girl. Centering on the genetically flawless Avery Fuller, 16, who lives on the top floor and has everything a wealthy girl could want or need, McGee shifts smoothly among the intersecting stories of a handful of teens. Glamorous teens, drinking, drugs fuel compelling mystery. In a confident debut, McGee creates a fascinating 22nd-century world set in a single thousand-floor mega-tower that houses all of Manhattan. ![]()
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