The Thousandth Floor

- This story is set in New York in the future. A tower has been built that everyone lives in. Your social standing is tied to the floor you live on. Everything revolves around tech, contact lenses let you tend to your social media, retinal scans let you into places etc. This is told from multiple points of view. It starts with a girl plummeting to her death from the top story of the tower. You spend the rest of the book trying to figure out who it is. There’s Avery, she lives on the top floor, she is perfect. There’s Leda, just back from rehab with a chip on her shoulder.  There’s Eris, whose world will crumble when she finds out her dad isn’t her dad. There’s Rylin, living on the lower levels trying to raise her sister alone. And Watt, the hacker who has tech that could put him in jail for life. Everyone has secrets- big secrets. And any of the secrets could get out at any time. Whoever knows these secrets holds the key to power. And she won’t be afraid to use it when the time comes. I LOVED this book. It was super creative, filled with crazy, interesting characters with so much to hide. The setting is fascinating and brilliant and a cautionary tale for our society today. I cannot wait to order the sequel and see how the murderer manipulates the others and how the witnesses try to take them down. I think my students will love this book and I know just who I will give it to when school is back in session! Happy reading my friends!