The towering sky

The towering sky

Katharine McGee

Book - 2018

New York, 2119, is a skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams. A new investigation on what happened in Dubai forces Leda to seek help from the person she's spent all year trying to forget. Rylin is reunited with an old flame, but when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn between two worlds, and two very different boys. Calliope is playing a long con that costs more than she bargained for... and her lies are beginning to catch up with her. Watt, still desperately in love with Leda, will do anything to win her back-- even dig up secrets that are better left buried. And Avery is home from England with a new boyfriend, Max-- but she'd rather be anything but perfect. -- adapted from jacket.

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Subjects
Teenagers > Sexual behavior > Fiction.
Teenagers > Drug use > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Sexual practices.
Science fiction.
Genres
Science fiction
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Katharine McGee (author, -)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
"...finale to the Thousandth Floor trilogy" -- dust jacket.
Sequel to: The dazzling heights.
Physical Description
454 pages ; 24 cm
Audience
HL830L
ISBN
9780062418654
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

McGee's finale to the futuristic NYC murder-mystery trilogy can't stand alone, but it does provide a satisfying conclusion to the very workable premise established in earlier titles (The Thousandth Floor, 2016; The Dazzling Heights , 2017). In 2119, the gap between rich and poor is further defined by housing: lower classes live on the lower floors of giant skyscrapers, while the wealthiest and most powerful inhabit the thousandth. The precise details of future technology are all completely plausible (i.e., special contact lenses that feed constant information to the wearer). Intertwining stories (the fabulously wealthy, adopted Fuller siblings' forbidden love; Leda's secret murder of her half sister, Eris; Watt's periodically requited love for Leda; poor orphan Rylin's attraction to wealthy orphan Cord; and Calliope's resolution to break free of her nomadic life and its lies) combine with a new murder to form an intricate and action-packed page-turner. With the additional tension of college admissions interviews, readers will enjoy the schadenfreude of a truly hellish high-school environment in a future driven by technology, for better and for worse.--Debbie Carton Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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