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Swift and entertaining. With plentiful chapter hooks and lots of action, this is a great choice for a beach read.” — Booklist Online
“Grabs the reader’s attention and never lets go.” — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “The luxe lives of Manhattan’s elite are even more extraordinary in Katharine McGee’s futuristic, highly addictive page-turner. The Thousandth Floor will give you vertigo and leave you eager for more.” — Cecily von Ziegesar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gossip Girl
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “A gleaming future where a dirty secret still has pull on any human heart.” — Anna Godbersen, New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “Compelling and imaginative - I loved everything from the fascinating vision of the future to the scandalous lives of the characters.” — Amy Tintera, author of Ruined
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “A confident debut, 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.” — Publishers Weekly
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “A clever construction, readers who love uncovering scandalous secrets will find themselves staying up late. This is a towering debut.” — Booklist
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “This will be gobbled up by fans of “Gossip Girl”. An excellent hook and familiar tropes make this title a likely hit.” — ALA School Library Journal
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “McGee has done her work in world building and character development to make a juicy, memorable future that readers will want to revisit.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“The Thousandth Floor’s dizzying sequel is Gossip Girl set in the year 2118 — only juicier. Throw (in) a cast of criminally hot teenagers, mind-bending tech, and a tantalizing forbidden romance... and you get The Dazzling Heights.” — -Seventeen.com
Cecily von Ziegesar
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “The luxe lives of Manhattan’s elite are even more extraordinary in Katharine McGee’s futuristic, highly addictive page-turner. The Thousandth Floor will give you vertigo and leave you eager for more.
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “McGee has done her work in world building and character development to make a juicy, memorable future that readers will want to revisit.
Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
Grabs the reader’s attention and never lets go.
Seventeen.com
The Thousandth Floor’s dizzying sequel is Gossip Girl set in the year 2118 — only juicier. Throw (in) a cast of criminally hot teenagers, mind-bending tech, and a tantalizing forbidden romance... and you get The Dazzling Heights.
Amy Tintera
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “Compelling and imaginative - I loved everything from the fascinating vision of the future to the scandalous lives of the characters.
Booklist
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “A clever construction, readers who love uncovering scandalous secrets will find themselves staying up late. This is a towering debut.
Anna Godbersen
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “A gleaming future where a dirty secret still has pull on any human heart.
Booklist Online
Swift and entertaining. With plentiful chapter hooks and lots of action, this is a great choice for a beach read.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “McGee has done her work in world building and character development to make a juicy, memorable future that readers will want to revisit.
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “McGee has done her work in world building and character development to make a juicy, memorable future that readers will want to revisit.
Booklist
Praise for THE THOUSANDTH FLOOR: “A clever construction, readers who love uncovering scandalous secrets will find themselves staying up late. This is a towering debut.
Kirkus Reviews
2017-06-14
Guilty parties continue to party in this soap-opera sequel.Surrounded by extravagance and futuristic technology, the elite teens of the top floors of the 1,000-story Tower in New York City still manage to be miserable. Vicious and ambitious Leda Cole struggles to conceal her murder of Eris Dodd-Radson by blackmailing her witnesses over their darkest secrets. There's Avery Fuller and her semi-incestuous relationship with her adopted brother, Atlas; hacker Watzahn "Watt" Bakradi and his illegal quantum computer; and scholarship-student Rylin Myers and her criminal ex-boyfriend. Newcomer con artist Calliope Brown and her mother also seek to exploit the richer residents. The economically stratified Tower also seems racially segregated; black Leda fights to overcome her middle-class origins, and lower-floor (and therefore lower-class) Iranian-American Watt and "half-Asian" Rylin falter as foils for the mostly white 1 percent. While the multiplicity of narrators causes tiresome plot repetition, it mimics the self-absorbed world of the Tower's top tier. McGee offers intriguing sci-fi elements—communication-enabling contact lenses, hovercraft, holography—but sacrifices social commentary or dystopian revolution for traditional teenage melodrama. In over 400 pages of dizzying excess and desperate partying, no one cuts through the "Gordian knot of these highliers' screwed-up lives." Readers wanting more substance should seek out J.G. Ballard's High-Rise. Only for avid CW viewers and tabloid-news fans, a shallow yet overlong tale of rich people and their problems. (Dystopian romance. 14-18)
