The Thousandth Floor audiobook

I have to mention this: my friend Anna who doesn't read that much (if it's not Harry Potter) read TTF and called me once she finished with a wicked book hangover.SO PROUD OF HER!

THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR is a sleek, smart, guilty pleasure. The opening chapter begins with an unnamed girl falling to her death from a skyscraper in 22nd century New York, and the questions of "who" and "why" are ever-present as this thriller unfolds. The major raised eyebrow comes from the main character's love for her adopted brother, which sits rather uncomfortably for YA and in this context; but despite a few reservations, this story is surprisingly well-written and enjoyable. Positives: -- super, super fun world-building. This is a mystery/thriller in a futuristic setting, with cool tech that feels organic to the story and the way the characters would use them. In addition to stuff you might expect, such as smart contacts with Google-glasses-type capabilities, there are imaginative touches like gummy bears with nano chips installed that make them move (and scream!), floating alcohol bubbles you drink from a straw, enviable closets and immersive shopping experiences, a boy with a frighteningly intuitive computer linked to his brain, and so much more. It's all incredibly well-thought-out, and none of it is there purely as set decoration.-- 5 distinct POVs, each of which add significantly to the plot. I'm the first person to complain about excessive and superfluous narrators, but you truly couldn't have lost one of these without changing the story. They're all well done, and all make you understand and sympathize with the characters' motivations, even when they're at odds with each other. One of the POVs is a teenage hacker's, and the description of how he infiltrates systems and uses information to his advantage is fascinating. -- realistic, layered friendships, especially between the girls. Affection, history, competition, and jealousy all come into play.-- There are major underlying themes exploring class division and privilege that I didn't expect. The towering, 1000-floor Manhattan building these kids live in is almost its own character, and the author skillfully and convincingly portrays the glittering lifestyle and mindset of the wealthy uptower kids and contrasting POVs without turning them all into cliches, or hammering readers with specific agendas and lessons. -- this future world is matter-of-factly diverse, with many persons of color, as well as LGBTQ characters. -- Sex-positive -- adults take a back seat here and maybe could have been developed a bit more, but they're not merely token presences; there are interesting subplots that happen with them. Stuff I wish had been better:-- Avery is in love with her adopted brother. It's not handled in an icky way, but romanticizing incest for young readers is something that does concern me, particularly when it involves kids who were mostly raised and grew up together. It's less of an issue for me in other situations--dire ones like Forbidden come to mind--but here, the single-mindedness and focus on this romance would make me less inclined to recommend this for younger teenagers, especially since the connection between the two of them isn't as well-developed as it could be. Atlas is kind of a pleasant but oblique non-entity; Avery, despite her genetic perfection, is much more interesting. -- I really, really wish (view spoiler)[the girl who is killed isn't the bisexual one. With all the "kill your gays" issues of late, (hide spoiler)] I think increased mindfulness and sensitivity to this trope is necessary. -- I'm not sure this needed a sequel, since I think the story would have more of an impact if it had stuck the ending. But I enjoyed this so much, I'll definitely be picking up book two!This was longer than I intended, but since there are so many mixed/negative reviews I thought a countering opinion might be useful. Despite a couple of not-insignificant issues, I think this one has a lot going for it, and I liked that it wasn't a typical fast-paced, action-heavy thriller, but more of a character-driven story with a futuristic setting. I was completely engrossed as I went down all the rabbit holes of the plot, and the future tech is so freaking cool. Damn, it's fun to live and play in this world, even if it's just for a little while.

i love my YA books like i love drama - wild, reckless, and over-the-top. and the thousandth floor was all of that and more! i couldnt get enough. seriously, this book/series is soooo underrated and its a tragedy.now, dont get me wrong. this wont win any literary awards or become a classic anytime soon (if at all). the writing is relatively simplistic and the overall tone feels young, but that totally works for this type of story. its serving me drama, dangerous flirtations, over-privileged kids who dont think before they act. its a recipe for disaster and i am here for it. this has been compared to ‘gossip girl,’ and although i can see the similarities, this was such an entertaining story in its own right. its so unique with its sci-fi-esque world building, it has great character arcs, and dont forget all the DRAMA. it is the very definition of a guilty pleasure series but, somehow, i dont feel too guilty about enjoying it.↠ 4 stars

4.5 starts rounded up to 5I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I kept seeing it in my feed, but it seemed like the reception has been a bit lukewarm. The concept sounded interesting so I figured I would give it a try.You might look at this YA teen drama and say to yourself, “Matthew, this doesn’t seem like your type of book!” Well, I do like to dabble in the teen drama a bit – I blame my years of watching Degrassi for keeping a nostalgic corner of my heart for the genre. Also, my wife is always watching Pretty Little Liars, Vampire Diaries, etc. – which I find myself watching along with her. So, I have to say this sort of thing is my not-so-guilty pleasure!I thought the storytelling and characters were great. For me it felt a lot like the Lunar Chronicles in its format, but I may have actually liked how this one started a bit more (and I really liked Cinder). When I first got into it and realized that it was going to be pretty heavy on the teenage angst and rumor mongering, I worried that it would descend into a simple pattern of backstabbing and gossiping. But, I think it stayed fairly interesting and complex. She built the plot in such a way that when you get to the resolution you realize almost every single plot point helped to weave an intricate web. Very cool!My only possible complaint is that it overdid the "oops-I-wasn't-supposed-to-see-that-but-now-I-am-going-to-misinterpret-what-I-saw" trope. I think it happened at least 5 times and there has to be a max quota of this for one book!Side Note: I noticed that the follow-up books in this trilogy were better received and rated. This has led me to a theory – I will officially dub it “Matthew’s Trilogy Rating Theory” and get it trademarked! ;) I often notice that the next two books in a trilogy tend to rate better than the first. Normally my thought would be that the story got better or the author got more comfortable writing scenarios for their characters. Now I am thinking it is more that, on average, if you didn’t like the first, you are much less likely to keep going. Therefore, a greater percentage of the reviewers of the next two books are people who loved the first and are, therefore more likely to rate the sequels high as well. I am sure there is a complex mathematical equation for this around here somewhere . . .My conclusion – I do recommend the book, but since many are rating it mediocre, I cannot say for sure if you will be as pumped about it as I was. But, if you do end up liking it, I think you will REALLY like it!

all he knew was that the girl was the first person to fall from the Tower in its twenty-five years. He didn't know who she was, or how she'd gotten outside.He didn't know whether she'd fallen, or been pushed, or whether - crushed by the weight of unspoken secrets - she'd decided to jump. I know the book comparisons get old, but think futuristic Gossip Girl. I was pleased with how excellent the drama was. Definitely one of those guilty pleasure type books. What elevated things for me was the incredible world that was created. Set in New York City in the year 2118 - a world like you've never seen before! The city is a thousand-story tower stretching two and a half miles high. Leda caught flashes of color where the elevators shot past, the veins of the city pumping its lifeblood up and down. It was the same as ever, she thought, utterly modern and and yet somehow timeless. Leda had seen countless pics of the old New York skyline, the one people always romanticized. But compared to the tower she thought it looked jagged and ugly. The higher up in the Tower you live, the wealthier you are. Also meaning the lower the floor, the poorer you are. This futuristic world is very high-tech with hovers as cars, retinal scans to unlock doors, contacts as a quicker means of a computer really with the capability of looking stuff up by saying it aloud, sending pings or texts, checking the feeds or social media, etc. The lower the level, the less futuristic tech you will find because they can't be afforded. There's futuristic drugs like halluci-lighters and really all kinds of things. This world is very expansive..The story starts with the inevitable end: a girl falling off the Tower from a party on the thousandth floor. We don't know who she is, how she got there, or how she ends up falling two and a half miles to her death.It backtracks two months and this is where we meet our characters. The Thousandth Floor is told from five different perspectives.Avery is the girl who was genetically created to be perfect (a word she despises). She lives on the thousandth floor with her parents and brother Atlas. Her life should be perfect, right? Only she is tormented by the one thing she wants, but could never have.Leda is fresh off a stint in rehab, something she won't let anyone find out about for fear of being judged. She's even keeping it from her best friend Avery. It was only xenperheidren which helps to sharpen her thinking. It just felt so necessary until it all got out of control after what happened last year - that hookup with Atlas nobody knows about. And he left after, went missing. The only person he talks to is Avery, but no one knows where he is. Can Leda keep her secret addiction under control amidst the chaos the Tower brings her?Rylin lives on the thirty-second floor with her younger sister. Their mom died a year ago leaving Rylin to work a dead-end job and keep things afloat. She has a drug dealing boyfriend and is always behind on rent. So when an opportunity to work on one of the highest floors in the Tower comes her way, she couldn't possibly turn it down. If only she knew how much this job would truly cost her.Eris comes from old family money and is Avery's oldest friend. Upon new information, her life begins to fall apart at the seams. Her whole world flips upside down.Watt is a genius living on the 240th floor with his family. He has a deep secret that could get him locked up in prison for life. It's also the reason why he's so damn good at hacking. And why he gets hired by one of the upper-level girls to spy on someone making the lies go deeper than even he could imagine.There's a whole lot more to the plot, but I'd view some of these little things as spoilers. It's best to find out as you go along. Just know there's a whole lot more drama involved. There's a complicated and not-so-typical love triangle, financial issues, problems with parents and siblings, a secret addiction, and really so so much more. I even feel like there were some things alluded to, just not quite gotten to yet in the plot. I'm really excited to see where the series takes us from here. I enjoyed all of the characters. Some are more likable than others, but I found myself intrigued by all of the characters' individual stories. I loved the futuristic aspects within the story. I'd like to learn more about how things came to be the way they are, though. I wish there was a little bit more world-building to explain certain complexities. However there was just enough in book one. I only hope to see the world expanded a bit more.Prepare for plenty of backstabbing, secrets, betrayal, romance, and even more. Bonus for excellent diversity. And bisexual characters like it ain't no thang. Finally with it in the future. If you've enjoyed anything by Sara Shepard, Private, Gossip Girl, Emancipated, Unrivaled, or any series like these, you'll fall in love with the world Katharine McGee created.

The Thousandth Floor is a YA novel set in the future. All the characters in the book live in a giant tower located in New York city. The amount of wealth and status citizens possess dictates where they live in the tower. The wealthiest families live on the top floors, the poorest on the bottom, and everyone else in between. Throughout the story, we follow 5 characters, Avery, Eris, Watt, Rylin, and Leda, and get to read from each of their points of view. The book is written in third person. That's not my favorite, but I think it worked well here. It took me a little while to get into the story, but that was mostly because I was switching back and forth between 5 different people. It was absolutely necessary though to set up the story, and after a certain point, I was hooked! Secrets and lies are at the root of most of the characters troubles. Whether it be keeping them or telling them, no one is immune from the damage they cause. One of them even winds up dead, and finding out who falls from the top of the tower propelled me to plow through the second half of the book. The author did an amazing job of creating suspense in the last few chapters. I couldn't put the book down if I had to!The ending is unforgettable and infuriating! Never has a book ending made me so absolutely livid! I was literally yelling at my kindle like a crazy person. I'm serious. People were staring! It wasn't pretty! Lol I couldn't even rate the book when I was done, because I was so furious! After I slept on it, I realized that the fact that I felt so passionately about the end and that I cared so much for the character that wound up on the ground means that the author did a damn good job with making me invested. I felt so much for the character that met their demise. I wanted to scream! I wanted to cry! I wanted to write to Katherine and tell her that she broke my heart! I would also tell her that she is fucking amazing at the same time. I've seen many mixed reviews for this book, and most of them seem to be due to the ending. I understand why, because it isn't a happy one by any means. We still have two more books to go though, and I'm holding out hope that I'm satisfied in the end! It won't change what happened, but hopefully, it makes me feel better in some way. It's driving me crazy not to grab the second book right away to see what happens next. I'm reading these with my book club though, so suffer I shall until we have the next one scheduled. I recommend this book with the warning that it will drive you crazy and piss you off beyond belief! In my case, it was worth it. Your mileage may vary!

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Me ha gustado desde el primer capítulo hasta el último. Cada personaje me ha absorbido por completo, su historia, su vida, y como con giros increíbles todo se va complicando cada vez más, algo que hacía que cada vez me sintiera más y más enganchada hasta llegar a unos capítulos finales que te dejarán con la boca abierta. Un libro que me ha encantado por completo y al que espero poder leer su continuación porque se ha quedado increíble. Reseña: http://rubiesliterarios.blogspot.com/...

It's 7am and I didn't slept at all because I couldn't stop reading. I loved it.

Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest #1 The Thousandth Floor - ★★★★#2 The Dazzling Heights - Not Read Yet#3 The Towering Sky - Not Read Yet In the year 2118, in New York City there’s a thousand-story tower. It has everything you could imagine inside, and there is no need for you to ever get out. The floor you live on represents your status. The higher you live, the more money you have, which means you become more popular. The rich people don’t necessarily hang around with the poor, and gossips spread faster than lightning. The thousandth floor is the top! But then one night, at a party, one girl falls down from the rooftop of the tower, and the mystery remains – what exactly happened that night? Despite all the mixed reviews I’ve seen for this book, I actually really enjoyed it! The world is futuristic and I loved reading about all the different cool items and gadgets that the author was writing about.The main character that we have is Avery Fuller, who lives on the thousandth floor of the tower. She has been genetically designed to only have the best genes from her parents, and is, therefore, perfect. But then – SPOILER ALERT – (view spoiler)[ she is in love with her brother, who is actually adopted, so not her brother. And as weird as it might seem, they are not related in any way, and the romance was beautifully written. And a lot of you people have been giving this book a bad review because of this reason, but some of you also happen to love ”City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare, who features Clary and Jace, who started with the same background? (hide spoiler)]Apart from Avery, there were many other characters as well, all of them different and all of them unique at the same time. A girl that works as a main in a rich boy’s house, a girl who is best friends with Avery but doesn’t feel she belongs there, a girl that suddenly finds out she is not rich anymore and has to move onto the lower floors of the tower, a hacker who wants to earn money, no matter the what… The book is written from all these character’s points of view, and I loved the variety and also how all these characters connect to each other in an interesting way. They all have goals, dreams, hopes, fears, and everything is surrounded in drama. If you love Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars or the TV Show Riverdale, I guarantee you will enjoy this one. It’s full of mystery, drama, romance, sci-fi and luxury. Thank you to my sister, for letting me read this book. I borrowed it from her and will unfortunately have to give it back soon…Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>

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About: The Thousandth Floor is a young adult dystopian written by Katharine McGee. It was published on 8/30/16 by HarperCollins, 448 pages. The genres are young adult, dystopian, and science fiction. This book is the author’s debut. My Experience: I started reading The Thousandth Floor on 8/1/17 and finished it on 8/9/17. This book is a great read! There are a lot going on because there are many characters to keep up with. Not only that, the technology in this book is very high tech and out of this world. Some are very cool and others are hard for me to imagine, especially how they get from the building to the river to see a comet. It seems like the river is at the tower? I like Watt and his Nadia technology. The stories of the individual characters are interesting. It can be relatable. The Tower sounds very cool.In this book, readers will follow 5 high school students: Leda Cole, Eris Dodd-Radson, Rylin Myers, Watt Bakradi, and Avery Fuller. Leda turns to drugs when the guy she likes left, Eris finds out her life was a lie, Rylin couldn’t be with the guy she loved because of what she did, Watt is a tech genius and does hacking to make extra money, and Avery who is perfect in every way but is still unhappy. They all live at the high rise, The Tower in New York where the higher up you live, the wealthier your family are. This is a futuristic book, therefore, there are high tech in every way, from eartennas to hovercrafts inside the tower. What they have in common is finding someone to love. The wealthy will have a dazzling lifestyles but still struggle with love just as much as the poor who works dead end jobs to pay rent. The wealthy or the poor will turn to drugs when life gets stressed out. Everyone keeps secrets from one another and everyone resents each other thinking that the other has it all. This book is very Gossip Girl style where the rich are spoiled and entitled while the poor struggled to pay bills. The teens are selfish and do what makes them happy. This book is written in third person point of view and readers will get to follow all 5 characters. There is suspense at the end of each chapter for each character. I like following Leda’s train of thoughts. She surprises me the most despite her situations. I like her quick thinking. The ending does leave readers a bit of a cliffhanger. Overall, this book is an interesting read and I do recommend it.Pro: secrets, humor, suspense, multiple point of views,Con: too high tech for my imaginationI rate it 4 stars!***Disclaimer: Many thanks to the author Katharine McGee, publisher HarperCollins, and Edelweiss for the opportunity to read and review. I originally lost my access to the ARC and this time I’m reading the finished copy from the library. Please be assured that my opinions are honest.xoxo, Jasmine at www.howusefulitis.wordpress.com

If you liked the show Gossip Girl, then you will definitely love this.Going into this, I didn't really know much about it other than the fact that it's set in the future and follows the story of 5 teenagers. My expectations weren't that high for it either, but it ended up blowing me away. This is Katharine McGee's debut novel but it was written as if she is a seasoned author. She clearly has a talent for writing and her style really captivates you. After reading the very first page, I knew that I was going to love this story.The Thousandth Floor is set in the year 2118 in none other than New York City. The Tower is an unimaginable large building that everyone lives in, works in, goes to school, and everything else. Each floor consists of neighborhoods, schools, restaurants, etc. Basically each floor is so gigantic, that it's like a mini-city on each floor. There's no need to leave the Tower at all. There are 1,000 total floors in the building. The higher floors are for the wealthy only, called highliers. The lower floors are for the poorer people. Everything is super futuristic and the technology is amazing. There aren't cell phones anymore. People wear contacts that allow them to see their messages and social media. Retina scanners above front doors let you in instead of having to use keys.The story is narrated by 5 different teenagers whom live in the Tower and they all lead very different lives. Yet their stories all come together at the end.Avery lives on the 1,00th floor, which means that she's the richest and the most popular. She's also the most beautiful, and everyone either wants to be her or be with her. But Avery is hiding a dark secret from everyone..Eris is a highlier as well, and she comes from very old money. She's also friends with Avery, and she's that girl that has had a fling with pretty much everyone. She is also a bisexual character. But something happens that wrecks Eris's world.Leda is yet another highlier, and is best friends with Avery. She's just returned from rehab after becoming addicted to drugs due to her party-filled life. But the reason that Leda started using drugs is back, and she starts to lose control of her life again.Watt is a downlier. He lives on the 240th floor and his family is really struggling with money. So he creates an illegal supercomputer and does jobs on the side for more money. But he begins struggling once he's brought into the crazy life of the highliers.Rylin lives on the 32nd floor and is the poorest of them all. Her parents are gone so she was forced to drop out of school and get a job in order to take care of her younger sister. But her life gets crazy when her boyfriend deals drugs, and she starts working for a highlier.All of the characters, including the huge group of minor characters, were totally enjoyable. Rylin and Cord were my favorites, but they were all great and written very well.GRADING SCALECharacters - 18/20Plot line - 13/15Originality - 15/15Writing Style - 15/15Pace - 14/15Ending - 15/15Total = 90/1005/5 starsIt's a story full of partying, lies, deceit, scandals, drama, romance, and so much more. Like I said, it's kind of like a very futuristic version of Gossip Girl.The Thousandth Floor was an excellent story, and I would gladly recommend it to others. I need the next book right now.