The Towering Sky
Written by Katharine McGee
Narrated by Phoebe Strole
4/5
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About this audiobook
The final book in Katharine McGee's epic New York Times bestselling Thousandth Floor series
When you have everything, you have everything to lose.
Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams.
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?
Perfect for fans of Kiera Cass and Anna Godbersen, and with all the drama, romance, and hidden secrets from The Thousandth Floor and The Dazzling Heights, this explosive finale will not disappoint.
“We couldn’t put this one down.” —The Skimm
“The luxe lives of Manhattan’s elite are even more extraordinary in Katharine McGee’s futuristic, highly addictive page-turner. The irresistible cast of characters lures you into the elevator for an unexpected ride, packed with wittily prescient high-tech details and good old-fashioned romance and drama. The Thousandth Floor will give you vertigo and leave you eager for more.” —Cecily von Ziegesar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gossip Girl
Katharine McGee
Katharine McGee is from Houston, Texas. She studied English and French literature at Princeton and has an MBA from Stanford. It was during her years living in a second-floor apartment in New York City that she kept daydreaming about skyscrapers . . . and then she started writing. She now lives in Philadelphia. The Thousandth Floor is her first novel and The Dazzling Heights her second.
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Reviews for The Towering Sky
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5PERFECT SURPRISE ENDING!!
But open ended enough to write a fourth installment. This, the third and final book in the Thousandth Floor series was, perhaps, in my opinion, the best of the three. Although, they were all pretty good and definitely worth listening to.
One negative criticism I have, however, lies with the narrator: while, overall, she did a commendable job, her portrayal of Max, Avery’s German boyfriend, was done not in a German accent but a Russian one! I thought this to be very distracting, if not downright irritating and I am surprised this wasn’t caught by the editors. (Max himself was downright irritating to me anyway so, in a way, maybe it was fitting after all!!)
Otherwise, well done! - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5While the investigation of Mariel’s death is intriguing, the unnecessarily dramatic romance was just annoying. I never really liked Avery’s character so I wasn’t expecting to love her story since the beginning, but as a huge fan of Rylin and Cord’s relationship I was very disappointed in their story. Filled with tacky clichés and superficial complications, it destroyed the image that I had of them. The only characters that might redeem this story are Watt and Leda since their development felt much more genuine. Other than that, the Towering Sky felt like a bad sequel.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I’m so mad about the ending. I’ll just place a spoiler so I can rant a bit because I can’t be bothered to summarize the book without spoiling what I hated about the ending.Dear Katharine, you can’t just make me hate Calliope then expect me to be happy she got a happy ending. No. It wasn’t going to happen. I couldn’t stand her at all and then for her to end up with the misunderstood bad boy? Nope. I refuse to accept it. I don’t mind Avery faking her death and running away so she could maybe one day meet up with Atlas but to make that her sole motivation made me roll my eyes. I’d rather she’d travel the world first on her own and discover herself before giving in to being with one guy forever. At least my girl Leda Cole came out unscathed but even then all her problems couldn’t have just gone away. I would’ve liked to have seen her go back to therapy or something because she can’t be completely fine after the scare crazy super computer gave all of them. Watt is still great though.Rylin frustrates me the most. Not everything is about her, other people have complicated feelings too. I guess it was more disappointing because I expected so much from her and got little to nothing of growth in the end. She gets a do-over with Chord just because? No. I refuse. Don’t get wrong, loose ends were tied up nothing of great importance was left up in the air. There was a nice moment where I could fill the rest with my own interpretation but me being petty and mean didn’t like how others didn’t have the ending I would have wanted them to have. It’s perfectly readable this bad rating is just what I was disappointed in.