The technological components that McGee incorporated were actually pretty realistic, but since I though that aspect was one of the cooler parts of the story, I’ll leave you, the reader, to experience what I’m talking about for yourself. Once I was able to get past my confusion as to how the tower was constructed, I was able to enjoy the story. I had a hard time picturing paved roads and suburban neighborhoods with actual houses with roofs that were located INSIDE another structure. McGee did a great job of setting the scene and making sure to incorporate recognizable parts of the city, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that a lot of her descriptions of the tower’s interior didn’t confuse me. The higher a person lives in the tower, the higher their socioeconomic status and the lower a person lives, the more impoverished they are. Two miles high and over 32 city blocks wide at its base, the tower houses a majority of NYC’s residents. In this future, large portions of New York were destroyed in an unnamed way and so in an attempt to salvage iconic parts of the city, such as Grand Central Station or Central Park, a thousand floor tower was built right in the center of the city. The Thousandth Floor is somewhat of a dystopian Sci-Fi YA novel, taking place in Manhattan 2118. While I definitely can see why other’s did not like the book, there were certainly problematic plot points, I very much enjoyed it. So, it sat in my Kindle library for months and months until one day in September I just decided to pick it up on a whim. Although when I saw it on Goodreads “deal of the day” for $2, I couldn’t pass the opportunity up. I remember hearing a bit of buzz about it when it first came out last year, but I failed to pick it up based on it’s considerably low Goodreads rating. Thankfully, I think that I have finally come out of it after finishing The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee. Typically I can pinpoint a reason as to why this happens, but this time I’m truly at a loss.
For some odd reason, I have been in a terrible reading slump this Fall.
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