"The thing about truth was that once you learned it, it become impossible to unlearn"
― Leda ―

Today i'm bringing you a review for a series (yes, this is the second book of The Thousandth Floor Series) that honestly i don't know how to point what exactly the genre is. Okay, here me out. This book is set in futuristic world set in New York where the city, with a tower with a thousandth floor, where always sunshine, lack of rain (which they can control the weather here). The story tho, it includes with a lot of drama, mystery to be unlocked and of course, lots of complicated relationship.

A Quick Throwback

The story set in lots of POV, first we got Avery, the girl who lives in the top of the tower, the thousandth floor, the prettiest girl in earth because she was born to be perfect, because her parents technically "programmed" her before she was born, how she will look like and stuff. She got everything, but one thing that she want the most but can't. Her best friend, Leda is dating her brother (her foster brother to be exact) until Leda asked Watt (the genius hacker who got his own secret for his Nadia, the quantum computer he's hiding from the world because the artificial intelligent is illegal) to spy on Avery, also her other best friend Eris.  

Convinced that Eris is having an affair with her father, and Atlas, her boyfriend is in love with his sister Avery, Leda going trough with addiction and also discover Watt's deepest secret. In other hand we got Rylin who lives in lower floor in the tower, working as a cleaner in Cord's apartment who she fall in love with although she's dating  Hiral who's selling drugs and got jail by it, forcing Rylin to sell the drugs too also steals from Cord, which Brice, Cord's brother caught her and asked Rylin to stop dating Cord by threatening her for what she had done.

Trying to tell Cord the truth, she saw Erin with Cord, which used to be a couple, she decided to stop doing what she intended to do. In the party, going to the tower, she met Avery who's arguing with Leda who's high with drugs, confronting about Avery's relationship with Atlas, and in the middle of that, Eris who's trying to bring Rylin back to Cord came in the rooftop too. Leda, bring her hear out for accusing Erin having affair with her dad, trying to console Leda, Erin come closer and Leda pushed her. 

And yes, Erin is dead by falling from thousandth floor.

And oh yeah, Watt also witnessing that rooftop scene, and in the end Leda's threatening all of them Avery, Rylin and Watt who witnessing the scene with their own dark secret that Leda knows. So they decided that Erin wasn't pushed but got drunk and slipped. Woof, that wasn't a quick throwback, sorry for that.

Synopsis

Watt, with his secret in Leda's hand, trying to bring Leda down with confessions, accidentally got tangled with complicated feeling toward Leda by knowing her more while spending a lot of time together with Leda. 

Rylin going to the Berkeley School ( high tower high school ) by winning a scholarship fund by Eris's parent in memorial of Eris. Got to meet Cord and Leda almost everyday, and her being in that school only made people reminds Eris's death, burden her a lot. She got interested in Modern Holography class, who the teacher is young and  asked her help to work with him in LA which made Cord who constantly talk to her in some reason, disagree saying that probably not the main reason she got the offer. 

Calliope, a con artist who has been working with her mom, traveling from here and there, finally step foot in New York, ready for their next project. Meeting Atlas, the guy whom she met back in Africa while Atlas running away from New York because of his feeling with Avery, Calliope who run away from the failed project where she and her mom almost got caught. Had a feeling for Atlas but didn't get the chance in Africa, she finally made amends for it, only that it's hard to get Atlas where his sister constantly there with him. 

My Review

 By the first two section before this, the quick flashback and the synopsis, you probably already know how much i feel about it. In simple words, dramas. Too much drama here and there, Avery with her forbidden love, Watt with enemy to lovers relationship with Leda, Rylin with always the not perfect timing when in comes to her love with Cord, and as it not enough, we got a new character here, Calliope, which i would say, she got almost the most part of the book here.

I really like Watt's POV and Rylin's. Probably because they are from the lower tower, more humble, more pure and less drama? or probably mostly because i want them to be more in the scene for the sake of my sanity. I was hoping that Rylin find her timing well to tell her feeling with Cord, but she still got the same pace in the first book to the second one. Probably because it still got the last book to spare for their relationship. 

I was kind of thought the spotlight to this book would be Avery, since she's the one who is living in the thousandth floor, just like the first book, she seems to be the star in it. But i don't feel my heart to support her for what she's doing, can't justified her actions. She seems just become the girl who thing put herself above others, reminds me a lot to the mean girls movie. Even Watt who's falling for Avery at first book say so.

"Part of him felt appalled by Avery in that moment, at how utterly self-centered her view of the world was, even as another part of him recognized that she was probably right."

This time i think Leda is the main one this time. How she struggle to keep her secret for pushing Erin off the tower as just an accident, and keep people who witnessing the scene in line to not telling the truth. She went from addicted to drugs, to being a good friend again with Avery, and discovering Watt's deepest secret but didn't want to reveal it.

For the first time in her life, Leda Cole had dirt on someone—serious dirt, come to think of it—and had absolutely no intention of putting it to use. 

I personally supporting Watt and Leda also Cord and Rylin a lot for the romance, and lost interest for Avery's one. Whatever aspect of it, whether it's love or friendship. She become too bland to me. 

My Rating

I would rate this one as So-so (please go to my rating system for further information if you new for my rating system). I struggled a lot to finish this one. I remember i'm pushing myself so hard to finish the last 50 pages of this book with a lot of encouragement to myself (Yes, literally like "come on dee you can do it!" believe me or not). I was hoping to get Cord's POV in this book but i didn't. I searched in the goodreads that he got the deleted scene in e-book released but in Germany, which i don't understand (unfortunately) and didn't got any other edition, which a bummer. Still hope that the third book i got a glimpse of him tho. 

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