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The Thousandth Floor
by Katharine McGee
So this book was not what I was expecting. Months ago I read something that lead me to believe it was going to be a futuristic Murder on the Orient Express type of book. I was excited. I bought the book the minute it came out without reading the dust jacket. And I was surprised. Instead of Murder, this book is Gossip Girl.
It’s 100 years in our future (2118). Most of Manhattan lives in the “Tower”. A thousand floor monstrosity that stands 2.5 miles high. At the top of the tower lives a biologically perfect girl. Who is in love with her adopted brother. No that is not a spoiler, you know it in the first 20 pages. And you know someone falls/is pushed/etc off the edge of the top of this tower. Then you have the rest of the characters: Leda, the recently back from rehab, Eris, the beautiful who is a snob but experiences downturns in her life. Rylin, the maid, Watt the computer geek, and Atlas, Cord, Brice, et al. It’s a look at the elites or highliers of the tower and how they spend their days, while not paying attention to the downtowers. The writing was excellent, but the ending was smooshed together. Almost like the author wanted to get book one over with so she could start book two. You are lead through over 400 pages of building up to someone falling off the roof, and then in two pages, it’s done and on to the funeral.
The story isn’t bad, and I know a ton of girls who will eat it up. However, for me, it was just so so. The idea of this tower is so crazy beautiful, I wanted it explored more. I wanted more action, and less of the glitzy people have problems stuff. Plus..I’m annoyed. We are told from the beginning that someone fell from the top of the tower and landed on the street. But even the book’s own graphics and descriptions this CAN NOT happen. Yes, someone can fall, but not to the street. They would fall a few or a few hundred stories at the most. The bottom of the tower spreads from 42nd to 142nd street. So someone didn’t fall straight down, they flew like superman, or a plane with a trajectory almost as if they were shot from the roof, instead of fell. So that inaccuracy bugs me. BTW, none of that is a spoiler.
It’s 100 years in our future (2118). Most of Manhattan lives in the “Tower”. A thousand floor monstrosity that stands 2.5 miles high. At the top of the tower lives a biologically perfect girl. Who is in love with her adopted brother. No that is not a spoiler, you know it in the first 20 pages. And you know someone falls/is pushed/etc off the edge of the top of this tower. Then you have the rest of the characters: Leda, the recently back from rehab, Eris, the beautiful who is a snob but experiences downturns in her life. Rylin, the maid, Watt the computer geek, and Atlas, Cord, Brice, et al. It’s a look at the elites or highliers of the tower and how they spend their days, while not paying attention to the downtowers. The writing was excellent, but the ending was smooshed together. Almost like the author wanted to get book one over with so she could start book two. You are lead through over 400 pages of building up to someone falling off the roof, and then in two pages, it’s done and on to the funeral.
The story isn’t bad, and I know a ton of girls who will eat it up. However, for me, it was just so so. The idea of this tower is so crazy beautiful, I wanted it explored more. I wanted more action, and less of the glitzy people have problems stuff. Plus..I’m annoyed. We are told from the beginning that someone fell from the top of the tower and landed on the street. But even the book’s own graphics and descriptions this CAN NOT happen. Yes, someone can fall, but not to the street. They would fall a few or a few hundred stories at the most. The bottom of the tower spreads from 42nd to 142nd street. So someone didn’t fall straight down, they flew like superman, or a plane with a trajectory almost as if they were shot from the roof, instead of fell. So that inaccuracy bugs me. BTW, none of that is a spoiler.