![]() ![]() The prologue is set in the future, revealing the death of an anonymous character. Each of their personal stories and struggles provides a unique view into what life looks like in the year 2118. What they have in common are the scandalous lives they lead and the secrets they hide. ![]() Narrated in the first person, the point of view shifts often and rapidly between the five protagonists, a host of teens with various social ties to one another and a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. This building is a physical manifestation of a social construct: a caste system where the richer you are, the higher up you live. Most of the plot's action takes place within a giant skyscraper, a world-class luxury apartment complex towering two miles high. In this world, meat is grown in tubes and one can try on clothes holographically. ![]() Katharine McGee’s The Thousandth Floor, the first book of her young adult, futuristic melodrama three-part series, is a tangle of romance triangles incorporating elements of the science fiction and soap opera genres. ![]()
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