Take a photo of a barcode or cover
maggalie 's review for:
The Thousandth Floor
by Katharine McGee
I wanted to like this book. It had everything that I love in a book: futuristic timeline, advanced technology, drama, mystery. There aren’t many authors that can mesh all of those genres and ideas together and make them work, but I was really hoping that Katherine McGee could do it. Sadly she could not.
It started out so promising, the prologue was so intriguing I knew I had to read it ASAP. It starts out with how the book is going to end. The only problem, the book did not end the way the prologue started. The prologue shows in the third-person omniscient that a girl is going to fall from the thousandth floor, and die. It gives a brief look into this girls mind reading, “But as the ground rushed ever faster toward her, the girl could think only of the past few hours, the path she’d taken that ended here. If only she hadn’t talked to him. If only she hadn’t been so foolish. If only she hadn’t gone up there in the first place.” When I got to this part in the book, it didn’t parallel at all. Like at all. I had to go back and re-read the prologue, then re-read the ending paragraphs. Then look through the entire last chapter to find what the girl was talking about. It didn’t work. McGee tried so hard to make the prologue intriguing, and it worked, but the ending fell so flat.
While that was extremely disappointing the book overall wasn’t super great. There were way too many characters. The book has six different point of views and three of them are so similar that I was having a hard time remembering who was who and what their problems were. I ended up making a spreadsheet with detailed character notes to just remind myself when I got lost.
Along with there being too many characters all of their problems are so cliche and over done in the Young Adult genre. Loving your brother? Over done in The Mortal Instruments. Figuring out that your dad isn’t actually your dad? Also over done in The Mortal Instruments. Figuring out that the girl you love is actually in love with someone else, and that someone else being her brother? Again, over done in The Mortal instruments. This book literally steals almost every minor plot line from The Mortal Instruments series and doesn’t even try to mask the similarities.
This book just simply wasn’t good. If I could give it zero stars I would, one star seems really generous.
It started out so promising, the prologue was so intriguing I knew I had to read it ASAP. It starts out with how the book is going to end. The only problem, the book did not end the way the prologue started. The prologue shows in the third-person omniscient that a girl is going to fall from the thousandth floor, and die. It gives a brief look into this girls mind reading, “But as the ground rushed ever faster toward her, the girl could think only of the past few hours, the path she’d taken that ended here. If only she hadn’t talked to him. If only she hadn’t been so foolish. If only she hadn’t gone up there in the first place.” When I got to this part in the book, it didn’t parallel at all. Like at all. I had to go back and re-read the prologue, then re-read the ending paragraphs. Then look through the entire last chapter to find what the girl was talking about. It didn’t work. McGee tried so hard to make the prologue intriguing, and it worked, but the ending fell so flat.
While that was extremely disappointing the book overall wasn’t super great. There were way too many characters. The book has six different point of views and three of them are so similar that I was having a hard time remembering who was who and what their problems were. I ended up making a spreadsheet with detailed character notes to just remind myself when I got lost.
Along with there being too many characters all of their problems are so cliche and over done in the Young Adult genre. Loving your brother? Over done in The Mortal Instruments. Figuring out that your dad isn’t actually your dad? Also over done in The Mortal Instruments. Figuring out that the girl you love is actually in love with someone else, and that someone else being her brother? Again, over done in The Mortal instruments. This book literally steals almost every minor plot line from The Mortal Instruments series and doesn’t even try to mask the similarities.
This book just simply wasn’t good. If I could give it zero stars I would, one star seems really generous.