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Title details for The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee - Available

The Dazzling Heights

by Katharine McGee
Phoebe Strole
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The sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Thousandth Floor

New York, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amidst high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets...

LEDA is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She'll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden—even if it means trusting her enemy.

WATT just wants to put everything behind him...until Leda forces him to start hacking again. Will he do what it takes to be free of her for good?

When RYLIN wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. But being there means seeing the boy whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.

AVERY is tormented by her love for the one person in the world she can never have. She's desperate to be with him... no matter the cost.

And then there's CALLIOPE, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who arrives in New York determined to cause a stir. And she knows exactly where to begin.

But unbeknownst to them all, someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. And in a world of such dazzling heights, just one wrong step can mean a devastating fall.

Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Big Little Lies, the sumptuous second book in the bestselling Thousandth Floor series has all the drama, romance and hidden secrets that landed the first book in this series at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list!

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  • Release date

    August 29, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780062680037
      • File size: 385074 KB
      • Duration: 13:22:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 6.3
    • Lexile® Measure: 850
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      July 1, 2017
      Guilty parties continue to party in this soap-opera sequel.Surrounded by extravagance and futuristic technology, the elite teens of the top floors of the 1,000-story Tower in New York City still manage to be miserable. Vicious and ambitious Leda Cole struggles to conceal her murder of Eris Dodd-Radson by blackmailing her witnesses over their darkest secrets. There's Avery Fuller and her semi-incestuous relationship with her adopted brother, Atlas; hacker Watzahn "Watt" Bakradi and his illegal quantum computer; and scholarship-student Rylin Myers and her criminal ex-boyfriend. Newcomer con artist Calliope Brown and her mother also seek to exploit the richer residents. The economically stratified Tower also seems racially segregated; black Leda fights to overcome her middle-class origins, and lower-floor (and therefore lower-class) Iranian-American Watt and "half-Asian" Rylin falter as foils for the mostly white 1 percent. While the multiplicity of narrators causes tiresome plot repetition, it mimics the self-absorbed world of the Tower's top tier. McGee offers intriguing sci-fi elements--communication-enabling contact lenses, hovercraft, holography--but sacrifices social commentary or dystopian revolution for traditional teenage melodrama. In over 400 pages of dizzying excess and desperate partying, no one cuts through the "Gordian knot of these highliers' screwed-up lives." Readers wanting more substance should seek out J.G. Ballard's High-Rise. Only for avid CW viewers and tabloid-news fans, a shallow yet overlong tale of rich people and their problems. (Dystopian romance. 14-18)

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    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2018
      Readers return to the luxurious skyscraper in 2118 Manhattan. Leda (The Thousandth Floor) threatens and blackmails her friends into covering up Eris's murder, but not everyone believes her. A new face and new romantic entanglements threaten everyone's secrets. Despite inconsistent characters that vacillate between emotions convenient to the plot, drama fans will eat up the juicy intrigue, sexy romance--and a new murder.

      (Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:6.3
  • Lexile® Measure:850
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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