Taking place in the year 2118, the Tower is a large structure with a thousand floors, each floor getting more extravagant than the last, with the thousandth floor being the most divine and coveted. On a vast variety of floors, Ryelin Myers lives on the 32nd floor, down as the DownTower portion and, when she is hired to clean one of the highest floors, she risks falling in love with a boy that she could never have. Watt Bakradi lives on the 200th floor, and is known to be a tech genius. But when he installs a dangerous piece of technology in his own brain, he is hired to spy for an upper floor girl and his life takes a drastic turn for the worst. Eris Dodd-Radson lives on the 900th floor with her perfect family, but when a major betrayal seeps through, her small circle of trusted friends and relatives begins to crumble. Also, on the 900th floor dwells Leda Cole, who has it all but ruins it for a drug and boy that she should have never gone within breathing distance of. And on the thousandth floor, Avery Fuller seems like she has it all but is haunted by the one thing she wants but can never fully have.
The Thousandth Floor was incredibly addicting. I have to say, it would be a full five stars if it weren’t for that one “forbidden romance” that is actually sort of forbidden. Long after I finished this book, I kept thinking about it afterwards and came to the decision to finish the series, which is something that I literally never do. The futuristic drama was incredibly compelling, and the world building was so good that I sort of wish that the future would look like this. I loved the somewhat “high school drama” that slowly makes a turn for the worse near the end of the novel and I love the writing style that borders on formal and casual at the same time. This novel stayed long on my mind, and I do hope that more people will get around to reading it because everything was so well written and thought out that it would be unfair if this didn’t reach the general public or make it to some bestseller’s list. All that being said, I am still grateful that I was able to find this at the thrift store for a much lower price than it should have been labelled for.