SuitabookAmbition, status and loss
The tower’s floors and the characters’ different circumstances frame a future society in which people want things and have something to lose.
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Katharine McGee - Author
A glossy, high-stakes future-city story follows several young people whose ambitions and secrets overlap. It offers romance, technological speculation and social contrasts, while placing drug use, betrayal and deception alongside questions about desire and loss.
"A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible -- if you want it enough. 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." -- From dustjacket. 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 is addicted to drugs she never should have tried, and a boy she never should have touched. Eris faces a betrayal that will tear her family apart. Rylin's job leads to a new romance and a new life-- at the cost of her old one. Watt is a tech genius hired to spy on an upper-floor girl, and caught in a web of lies. Avery is genetically designed to be perfect; she has it all-- except the one thing she can never have.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA glossy, high-stakes future-city story follows several young people whose ambitions and secrets overlap. It offers romance, technological speculation and social contrasts, while placing drug use, betrayal and deception alongside questions about desire and loss.
The tower’s floors and the characters’ different circumstances frame a future society in which people want things and have something to lose.
Watt spies on an upper-floor girl and becomes caught in lies, while Eris faces a betrayal that affects her family.
The future city is described as innovative, and Avery is genetically designed to be perfect while lacking something she can never have.
Some readers may want to discuss how the story handles drug use, family rupture, romance, spying and lies.
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