The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee Review

Rating: 1/5

To be honest, I was so disappointed by this book. I was hoping for so much more from this premise - it could have been amazing, but it just fell flat on so many levels. It's a little bit like making a cup of tea, and you're so excited for it and you've left the teabag in just for the right amount of time AND THEN you pour the milk in and you pour in too much and now it's just a pale, bland, cold mess. This is this book. It could have been such a good cup of tea... As you can tell I lost a cup of tea today, I'm still mourning.

I couldn't quite get into Katherine McGee's writing and I'm not sure why, maybe it's because I didn't enjoy all the perspectives offered to us. Whatever the reason was something felt a little off to me. Unfortunately, an issue I had with this book was the amount of perspective offered to us, this often left my confused when we returned to a character after a while, and there was so many characters in this book that I just didn't care about no matter what. I'm not sure who could have been cut from the perspectives as I'm not entirely sure whose going to be significant in the series as it goes forward, but either way it felt like too much for people I really didn't care about. 

The characters in this book infuriated me, they were just so hard to like. I didn't even enjoy Leda as a villain figure, she felt almost forced into that role and the way her actions escalated towards the end of the book were just strange. Also, I'm not sure there was anything to even like about her, but that could have been completely overshadowed by how ridiculous and unrealistic her hate for Eris is. Furthermore Avery was just pretentious and a fake friend and I found no depth in her character, she was just kind of vacant. Even Watt who I think we're meant to like has his character completely overshadowed by his role as a stalker making him immediately unlikable. As for Rylin and Cord I feel pretty neutral about them, which is not a good sign - they should invoke some sort of emotion in me, but nope I feel nothing. The only character I liked was Eris because she showed such a great redemption arc throughout the novel that it was so hard not to like her. 

The romances in this were a bit screwy, and I'm not okay with Atlas and Avery's relationship as even though they're not related they were raised as if they were, and the worst thing about it is how the author seems to almost be promoting it which just doesn't seem right with me. The attraction of Watt towards Avery is seems creepy, which I was kind of expecting with this book as it's meant to be full of drama but again that's not addressed - which is not okay. Rylin and Cord's relationship had so much potential, but unfortunately it's just a filler for even more drama and that annoys me too much to talk about. The only positive romantic relationship we have in this book is between Eris and Mariel - and for a book full of relationships I should not be saying there is only one.

The way in which the girls in this book - particularly Leda, described romance in this book made me want to scream at time. It was all just so pretentious, boring and unbelievably stupid. Leda and Avery fall for the same guy, Atlas, and Leda goes on about him in the strangest of ways:

'He was so maddeningly opaque. If only Leda could see past his public profile...' is anyone else just letting out the longest sigh? Does anyone else realise how stupid that sounds? The frustrating thing is Avery isn't even 'opaque' he just fucking boring.

Leda even eats nachos with Avery at one point - I know, scandalous right - and comments 'but there was something intimate about eating off the same plate, the way their hands kept brushing as they reached for the same avocado smothered quinoa chips.' I'm not sure if I'm meant to make fun of Leda for thinking nachos are the next Lady and the Tramp or to think that's somehow beautiful.

What also bothered me about this was the drama and the origins of it within this book. Most of the drama between the girls revolves around guys and their desires and requests - and you know what, I might accept some drama surrounding guys if they were interesting characters, but none of them are. Every guy in this book seems to be a stereotype. Atlas is the Romeo, Avery's starcrossed lover who feels the same way, Watt is the creepy, geeky guy who knows he doesn't have a shot with the most popular girl so he resorts to stalking tactics instead, and Cord is just your average surprise! the rich guy ins't a massive dickhead stereotype. Of course you also have Cord's older brother and Rylin's ex who don't even deserve more than this mention because they were just flat, boring, asshole characters. 

Overall this book was bad, it was just bad. The only redeeming feature is the ending, which is spoiled in the prologue, and somehow it's still the only thing that makes you want to read on. If it wasn't for the ending I would have stopped reading or given this book a 0 rating because it's just that ridiculous, I have highlighted too many quotes with 'ffs' for it to be anything else. I want to know what happens next due to how this book ended but I'm not sure I can bring myself to buy the next book so I think I'll read a spoiler filled review. My advice to all of you is not to bother wasting your money on this.