They can watch TV from these contacts, read people’s lips, but the contacts are directed by voice commands. There’s some interesting concepts here, where everyone wears contacts which acts as super computers. I found the use of technology throughout the novel to be really fascinating, especially when contrasted to the lives of the poorer Rylin who has to work as a cleaner and Eris who has to move to the lower levels. Those who live at the top, such as Avery and her friends, live a charmed life filled with parties, drugs, gossip and opulence, while those who live towards the bottom live a life of poverty.

It started out promising, with the use of technological advancements leading to life with Manhattan in a thousand floor tower. While Jenna loved The Thousandth Floor (you can read her review here), I could not stand it. So it appears that you can disagree with your co-bloggers on books. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall…. The girl who seems to have it all-yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.ĭebut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But when he’s hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.Īnd living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world-and a romance-she never imagined…but will her new life cost Rylin her old one?

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.Įris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible-if you want it enough.Ī hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky.

New York City as you’ve never seen it before. Genres: Science Fiction, Contemporary, Young AdultĪmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Booktopia Published by HarperCollins on August 30th 2016

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