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A review by chicleeblair
The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
4.0
if this book had ended any other way, it would've gotten five stars from me. i was loving it. it combines the best bits of gossip girl, and the Luxe series with the 100 to make a really great futuristic teen ensemble drama. But then, let's just say it fell into a pitfall that the 100 also fell in.
it made me really sad because for the entire book I had seen this character that I identified with move through life without it being an issue that she liked boys and girls, but then right after she's decided that she is staying with the girl, she's killed. whether the author meant to punish her for being queer or not, it reads that way, and I was incredibly disappointed. Before someone says it has to be that way to inspire the revenge plot that seems to be getting to the next book, there are plenty of ways that that could have happened without the one openly lbgt girl in the main ensemble dying. she could have been comatose, at a minimum. goodness knows that class issues could've easily bled into healthcare and whether or not Mariel would've been able to see her could've been a huge barrier. i'm also worried that Mariel's profession of loving her from the beginning, regardless of how Eris felt is starting to frame her as psycho stalker love the next one, which would be another horrible lbgt trope to use.
I will probably read the next book because there's no other series like this but if they don't change the plot point in the TV show I will not watch and I hope there are plenty of other people who won't either.
it made me really sad because for the entire book I had seen this character that I identified with move through life without it being an issue that she liked boys and girls, but then right after she's decided that she is staying with the girl, she's killed. whether the author meant to punish her for being queer or not, it reads that way, and I was incredibly disappointed. Before someone says it has to be that way to inspire the revenge plot that seems to be getting to the next book, there are plenty of ways that that could have happened without the one openly lbgt girl in the main ensemble dying. she could have been comatose, at a minimum. goodness knows that class issues could've easily bled into healthcare and whether or not Mariel would've been able to see her could've been a huge barrier. i'm also worried that Mariel's profession of loving her from the beginning, regardless of how Eris felt is starting to frame her as psycho stalker love the next one, which would be another horrible lbgt trope to use.
I will probably read the next book because there's no other series like this but if they don't change the plot point in the TV show I will not watch and I hope there are plenty of other people who won't either.