Literally Lenny: November 2016

What's it About?:

"WELCOME TO MANHATTAN, 2118.

A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something…and everyone has something to lose.

LEDA COLE’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.

ERIS DODD-RADSON’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.

RYLIN MYERS’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will this new life cost Rylin her old one?

WATT BAKRADI is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy for an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.
And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is AVERY FULLER, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.

Amid breathtaking advancement and high-tech luxury, five teenagers struggle to find their place at the top of the world. But when you're this high up, there's nowhere to go but down...." - Goodreads Synopsis

My Thoughts:

I cannot possibly tell you how much I adored this book. The Thousandth Floor is easily, easily, my favorite book of 2016. I have never been so immersed in a book before.

The story is set in the future where hover boards are the norm, and thousand floor buildings are architecturally possible. I have heard a lot of people say that it is a futuristic version of Gossip Girl, and even though I was never a fan of Gossip Girl, I know exactly what those people were getting at. Regardless of the futuristic setting, Katharine McGee made this story incredibly realistic for people who are living 102 years in the past. She included the simple topics such as love and betrayal, as well as talking about the serious parts of everyday life. McGee brought the intense side to the story by talking about computer hacking, drug addictions, and family affairs. Each character was so different from the next, it's hard not to relate with at least ONE of them.

I loved it, and I will read it again and again until the sequel is released next Summer.

I highly recommend you give this a read, because you will NOT be disappointed.

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What's it about?

Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.

Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.

But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.

Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and kill them both.

My Thoughts:

An excellent sequel to an excellent debut. It's difficult for me to say which book I liked more because they both brought completely different things to the table. The first was full of so much information and an introduction to their world. The sequel dives so much more into each character's life, allowing us to relate with many of the characters, resulting in MANY MANY more feels. So many feels, you guys.

But...how was the return of the main characters? Well. To be honest, some I loved, and some just did not impress.

Elias:

Elias became more complicated and complex when you were able to see the things he found worth fighting for. Without giving away spoilers, Elias proves to us just how strong and loyal he is after we see him being violently tossed around in his own mind. Overall though, his character hadn't changed much from the first book. He was still the badass Elias who's mother was out to get him after she had thrown him to the curb. (But. That's okay. No bitter feelings, clearly...)

Laia:

Laia did not impress me much in this sequel. She was a major badass in the first dealing with everything that was thrown her way from the death of her family to becoming a slave for the most ruthless woman of the empire. But in the second, it was almost as if her character became weak. I wasn't impressed by anything she "courageously conquered". Her character became very dull in the sequel, making me almost think that she was a completely different character.

Helene:

We finally got to peak into Helene's mind as well, which was probably my favorite part. She is just a conflicted character, working for the empire when the empire has taken everything you love away from you. The strength and power she shows is remarkable and I cannot wait to learn more about how she takes on the Empire.

The ending leaves you wanting so much more. A decision is made by many but you have no idea how anything is going to work out or if it will work at all. It leaves you confused and scared, but overall, just really freaking happy that a writer like Sabaa Tahir exists. Cause trust me, she's wicked badass; just like her books.

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