Color me incredibly intrigued, okay? Quick Summary This book promised to be a futuristic, sci-fi GG. Call it a guilty pleasure if you must, but I don’t care – there’s something about it I love and it makes me nostalgic. I loved Gossip Girl and still enjoy reading about rich and terrible main characters. I mentioned this book way too many times on the blog before it came out, so clearly I was ready. But when you're this high up, there's nowhere to go but down. The girl who seems to have it all-yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.Īmid breathtaking advancement and high-tech luxury, five teenagers struggle to find their place at the top of the world. But when he’s hired to spy for 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 this 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. New York City as you’ve never seen it before.Ī thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. (Aug.Also by this author: The Dazzling Heights, Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet, The Towering Sky, American Royals Replete with romance, jealousy, and enticing future fashions and tech, McGee’s story delivers more than enough drama and excitement to hook readers and leave them anticipating the next book in the trilogy. Watt, a computer genius, creates an illegal “quant” named Nadia that helps him navigate the social structure of the tower. Rylin, an orphan, takes a job as a maid for spoiled Cord Anderton, only to begin an uncertain courtship. Meanwhile, Eris’s perfect life crumbles when she learns that her father is not her biological father and, therefore, she and her mother are penniless. Avery is always the most beautiful girl in the room, much to the chagrin of her best friend Leda, who is hiding a serious drug addiction. Centering on the genetically flawless Avery Fuller, 16, who lives on the top floor and has everything a wealthy girl could want or need, McGee shifts smoothly among the intersecting stories of a handful of teens. In a confident debut, McGee creates a fascinating 22nd-century world set in a single thousand-floor mega-tower that houses all of Manhattan.

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