the thousandth floor 2 the dazzling heights katharine mcgee

She is pressured to steal drugs and deal drugs with him. This complicates her existing romantic relationship with Hiral, her low-life, drug-dealing boyfriend. Soon, she falls for Cord, an athletic though sensitive sort, who is also grieving the loss of his parents.

She leaves her job at a concession stand to become Cord Anderson's maid. Despite her parental role in her sister’s life, she is a pill-popping party girl. Rylin Mysers’ parents died leaving her to raise her little sister, Chrissa on Floor 43. Once Leda returns from rehabilitation, she resumes her substance abuse, and her obsession for Atlas still blazes stronger than ever. When Atlas ignores Leda after they have sex one night, she grows depressed and obsesses over him, driving her to become addicted to xenperheidren, a fictional drug with similar effects to an anti-depressant and stimulant. Unlike Avery, Leda was not born into wealth her parents worked hard for it. Leda is Avery's best friend who lives on floor 962. She thinks he might have feelings for her too.

Avery is deeply in love with her stepbrother, Atlas, who also lives on the 1000th floor. She enjoys gardening, country music she is tired of only being noticed and complimented for her looks. One of these protagonists is Avery Fuller, a girl genetically engineered to be beautiful by her wealthy parents who live on the top floor. It is ambiguous whether the female depicted has jumped or fallen to her death, a tragedy that sets the stage for the work's central tension and climax. The prologue is set in the future, revealing the death of an anonymous character. Each of their personal stories and struggles provides a unique view into what life looks like in the year 2118. What they have in common are the scandalous lives they lead and the secrets they hide. Narrated in the first person, the point of view shifts often and rapidly between the five protagonists, a host of teens with various social ties to one another and a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. This building is a physical manifestation of a social construct: a caste system where the richer you are, the higher up you live. Most of the plot's action takes place within a giant skyscraper, a world-class luxury apartment complex towering two miles high. In this world, meat is grown in tubes and one can try on clothes holographically. Katharine McGee’s The Thousandth Floor, the first book of her young adult, futuristic melodrama three-part series, is a tangle of romance triangles incorporating elements of the science fiction and soap opera genres.

The thousandth floor 2 the dazzling heights katharine mcgee