The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

Title: The Towering Sky
Author: Katharine McGee
Series: The Thousandth Floor
Previous Books in the Series:
1. The Thousandth Floor
2. The Dazzling Heights
Date Started: November 29
Date Finished: December 5
Format: ebook from the digital library

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined. Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget. Rylin is back in her old life, 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 feels trapped, playing a long con that costs more than she bargained for. What happens when all her lies catch up with her? Watt is still desperately in love with Leda. He’ll do anything to win her back—even dig up secrets that are better left buried. And now that Avery is home from England—with a new boyfriend, Max—her life seems more picture-perfect than ever. So why does she feel like she would rather be anything but perfect?

In this breathtaking finale to The Thousandth Floor trilogy, Katharine McGee returns to her vision of 22nd-century New York: a world of startling glamour, dazzling technology, and unthinkable secrets. After all, when you have everything… you have everything to lose

UGH. I should probably use more adjectives to sum up this book, but that’s all that is coming to mind right now. UGH. While the first two books of this trilogy were kind of entertaining and reminded me of a futuristic Gossip Girl/Pretty Little Liars crossover, the finale left a lot to be desired. In fact, there was a moment there – actually a few of them if I’m being honest – where I was going to mark this as DNF and move on with my day. The characters were so shallow and had the very bad habit of going back to their old ways, that it drove me absolutely bonkers.

Calliope’s story wasn’t really needed. At all. It was basically her fighting her mom’s new husband’s strict rules, and her trying to get used to not being on the run or running a con. Boring. Leda trying to cut everybody from her old life out so that way she didn’t go back to her old habits, fails miserably when Edris’s death is brought up again by the police. Watt and that stupid computer of his. Rylin and her complicated relationship with Hiral and then Cord, was just messy (and actually one of the better plot lines of the book). And then there’s Avery. At first, I was looking forward to her story, she was completely different from the character we saw at the end of book 2. She was stronger, she was moving on from Atlas. And then Atlas came back and things went down hill, very fast.

Final Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. Other than Rylin and bits of Avery’s story, everybody else could have disappeared for all I cared. And Avery! Her ultimate storyline is actually better than what I thought it was going to be, but things were left way too open for a final book in a series.

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