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Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A thousand-storey tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible – if you want it enough.
A hundred years in the future, New York's elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world. Everyone wants something… and everyone has something to lose.
As the privileged inhabitants of the upper floors recklessly navigate the successes and pitfalls of the luxury life, forbidden desires are indulged and carefree lives teeter on the brink of catastrophe. Whilst lower-floor workers are tempted by a world – and unexpected romance – dangling just out of reach. And on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all – yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.
So when a young woman falls from the top of the supertower, her death is the culmination of a scandal that has ensnared the top-floor elite and bottom-floor. But who plummeted from the roof? And what dark secrets led to her fall?
Friends will be betrayed and enemies forged as promises are broken. When you’re this high up, there’s nowhere to go but down…
A hundred years in the future, New York's elite of the super-tower lie, backstab and betray each other to find their place at the top of the world. Everyone wants something… and everyone has something to lose.
As the privileged inhabitants of the upper floors recklessly navigate the successes and pitfalls of the luxury life, forbidden desires are indulged and carefree lives teeter on the brink of catastrophe. Whilst lower-floor workers are tempted by a world – and unexpected romance – dangling just out of reach. And on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all – yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.
So when a young woman falls from the top of the supertower, her death is the culmination of a scandal that has ensnared the top-floor elite and bottom-floor. But who plummeted from the roof? And what dark secrets led to her fall?
Friends will be betrayed and enemies forged as promises are broken. When you’re this high up, there’s nowhere to go but down…
Review
This book is set in Manhattan in the future year of 2118. It's a cross between Clueless and Mean Girls, think rich kids spending their parents money and trying to out do their friends in the process. It is a YA novel but I was intrigued by the futuristic setting.
I found the book a little hard going to begin with and I thought the book was just going to turn out to be about a bunch of rich kids in the future. However, once the book began to address some very deep issues and the characters began to be fleshed out more I was drawn in, hook, line and sinker.
The parts of the book I loved the most were the descriptions of the tech of the future. A future were just the blink of the eye can issue commands and contact other people. One of the characters takes it a little further and has AI as an integral part of his brain. This was an aspect of the book that I found fascinating.
Life may be very tech orientated and glitzy on the Thousandth floor but the lower you travel down the tower the people are much less privileged and so this gave another twist to the story. People from the different floors interacting and finding out that without the technology and underneath the surface glitz they aren't that different after all. Some people got to go up the tower and experience things they never dreamt of and others ended up down the bottom of the tower stripped of their former life.There were so many different plot lines, but they all weaved together to form a brilliant and cohesive story.
I was surprised by the ending - so much so that I never really thought of there being another book. But, now I want to read that book.
I'm giving this book four out of stars. My thanks to Netgalley for a copy of the book to review.
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