The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee is a book set 100 years into the future. This book takes place in a futuristic New York City where everyone lives in a glittering thousand-story tower and the higher you are, the richer you are. The story follows five main characters: Leda Cole, Eris Dodd - Radson, Rylin Myers, Watt Bakradi, and Aver Fuller. Leda has a flawless exterior but underneath, hides a secret drug addiction and obsession with a boy. Eris is beautiful and has a carefree life until a betrayal in her family is discovered, and everything starts to crumble to pieces. Rylin lives on the lower level but her job on one of the highest floors swoops her into a new world and romance she never could have imagined, but it may come at a cost. Watt is a tech genius and knows everything about everyone, so he is hired to spy on one of the upper floor girls, tangling himself in a complicated web of lies and secrets. And finally there is Avery, the girl genetically engineered to be perfect; the girl who has it all and lives on the highest floor in the tower but is tormented by the one thing she can never have. These five teenagers struggle to find their places in the tall world and when you are so high up, there is only one place to go; down. 

I loved this book! It was an amazing book with teenage drama and futuristic science fiction. These five characters' lives intertwine throughout the story in lies, deception, and betrayal which makes it very interesting to read. There were so many surprises, unexpected twists, and revelations throughout the book that I was unable to put it down. 

I really enjoyed the setting of the story because the tower was very interesting. The higher the level you are on, the richer and higher social status you have.  In the story the higher levels are called uptower and the lower you are called downtower. It was also very interesting to read about all the futuristic aspects of this life, which just added to the book and made it even more fun to read, and added to the imagery of the story. 

While reading the beginning of the book I would sometimes get confused with the characters and forget their background because 5 points of view in one novel is a lot, but about half way through I started to understand them better and would not give up any of their point of view chapters in the story. 

Also, this story started out tragically with a two page prolog, set two months after the rest of the book, of a girl at a party who fell off of the balcony on the 1000 floor, but it is not revealed who this unfortunate character is. The beginning of the story takes place two months before this incident and all throughout the story I was grappling to figure out who fell and the ending took me by surprise, making this book a very enjoyable mystery. 

Overall, I loved this book and it was super gripping and interesting. I would recommend it to anyone who loves a book filled with mystery, betrayal, secrets, lies, and drama. I can’t wait to pick up the next book in this trilogy!

Check out The Thousandth Floor  from the Newport Beach Public Library.