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The Thousandth Floor
by Katharine McGee
You should definitely read this book if:
- Gossip girl is your favourite TV show or book series.
You should definitely skip this book if:
- Even in fiction, adopted siblings falling in love ruins the whole book for you.
Good reasons to read this book:
- You like multiple point of views, 5 to be exact.
- You like complicated teenagers, and their relationships. (13 reasons why, pretty little liars, etc.)
- You like stories about wealth: Rich people, rich people getting poor, poor people coming in contact with the rich.
Bad reasons to read this book:
- You like very realistic, detailed sci-fi style world-building.
- You're not in the mood for drama: Addiction, fake heritage, boyfriends in jail, misunderstandings, secrets, this book has it all.
- You're looking for great representation, of any kind.
Book's biggest strengths:
Characters! It's not easy to pull off so many different POVs while keeping them distinct and making the reader care about them all, but this book manages it, and somehow, because the character's struggles feel so real and immidiate, the overly dramatic plot points don't feel trashy or boring, they just feel like genuine problems.
Book's biggest weakness: (?)
I believe this book is genuinely great at accomplishing what it sets out to do. It's an absorbing book about very rich and very poor teenagers and their over-the-top problems. It's well-written, well-plotted and fast-paced.
The issue (for me) is that what it sets out to do, just isn't what I love to read.
- Gossip girl is your favourite TV show or book series.
You should definitely skip this book if:
- Even in fiction, adopted siblings falling in love ruins the whole book for you.
Good reasons to read this book:
- You like multiple point of views, 5 to be exact.
- You like complicated teenagers, and their relationships. (13 reasons why, pretty little liars, etc.)
- You like stories about wealth: Rich people, rich people getting poor, poor people coming in contact with the rich.
Bad reasons to read this book:
- You like very realistic, detailed sci-fi style world-building.
- You're not in the mood for drama: Addiction, fake heritage, boyfriends in jail, misunderstandings, secrets, this book has it all.
- You're looking for great representation, of any kind.
Book's biggest strengths:
Characters! It's not easy to pull off so many different POVs while keeping them distinct and making the reader care about them all, but this book manages it, and somehow, because the character's struggles feel so real and immidiate, the overly dramatic plot points don't feel trashy or boring, they just feel like genuine problems.
Book's biggest weakness: (?)
I believe this book is genuinely great at accomplishing what it sets out to do. It's an absorbing book about very rich and very poor teenagers and their over-the-top problems. It's well-written, well-plotted and fast-paced.
The issue (for me) is that what it sets out to do, just isn't what I love to read.