Hey everyone! Today's review is on book #3 of Katharine McGee's The Thousandth Floor trilogy and I have to say that this review is one that I'm having a hard time with.
Okay. Here we go. This book starts one year or so after the end of the previous book, so getting into this one was hard. Big time difficult for me. I have a hard time sticking with books where NOTHING HAPPENS for the first like two thirds of it. The only reason I stuck with it was because I wanted to know what happens to two characters and I didn't want to cheat and read ahead. I understand that the reason not much happens is because there was a lot of back story going on and catching up with the characters since many of them were off and doing wonderful things for a year between the second and third books. Doesn't mean I had to be happy about it...
Besides the boring first 75% of the book, there were also characters that I just... I didn't understand why they were there. For example, Calliope. She was not integral to the story line. She could have just disappeared and I would have been okay with it. She wasn't wrapped up in any of the deaths like the rest of them were. Leda and Avery were probably the most important to the original story line and they both had crazy stuff going on. Leda's character has been a constant back and forth between drug problems and crazy stalker behavior that happens in book two. Her and Watt band together and create a duo of hacking genius. Watt's character was one that I could have done with less of. I'm glad he and Leda mended whatever was going on with them, but his point of view, I didn't feel it was super pertinent to the story line.
Avery's character development was a little more gradual. You see the sweet girl who kind of let's everything just kind of roll down her back. In the first two books you also see her and her adopted brother struggle with the feelings they have for one another. I know this bothered a lot of people, but they weren't actually related and one of my favorite lines from the book was when Atlas tells Avery, he remembers what it was like before them. He remembers what it was like before he had Avery and her family. For some reason that really stuck with me as I finished the book. For them, the love that developed started out as a friendship between the two of them. Yes, they were young when they began their friendship, but some of the greatest love stories are those that start that way. That's why their relationship dynamic didn't bother me like it did others, I guess.
So, like I said, the first 75% of the book.. totally boring, but once you hit that point where things start to go.. man, do they start to go. In book #2, Mariel dies and the group of friends who were on the roof when Eris dies come under suspicion. None of them have any clue as to who did it, though, until Watt, who has an AI unit in his head figures it all out. His AI hacked a bot and killed her to keep the rest of them from getting blamed for Eris's death. Then we find out that Leda, who pushed Eris and caused her to fall to her death in book one, is going to confess everything, but Avery beats her to it!
From there we end up with a surprise ending, which I honestly kind of love, but wish there was more to. McGee leaves it open ended enough to maybe spin off with a few novellas or maybe one extra book. if she doesn't do that, though, I would be fine with it.
Leave me your thoughts on this book in the comments! I'd love to hear what you thought of the book and the series as a whole!
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