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The Towering Sky (The Thousandth Floor #3) by: Katharine McGee

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Beware of the spoilers to The Thousandth Floor and The Dazzling Heights that lurk beyond this message...



Welcome back to New York, 2119. Leda wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. But a new investigation forces her to look for help from the one person she has spent a year trying to forget. Rylin is living the good life, reunited with an old flame, however seeing Cord again causes confusion. She has to choose between two worlds and two very different boys. Calliope is trapped in a long con that is harder than she bargained for. Will she be safe when her lies catch up to her? Watt is still in love with Leda. He is willing to do anything to get her back, even if it means digging up old secrets that should remain hidden. Avery is back from England with her new boyfriend Max. Life seems to be perfect for her but she feels like she couldn't be more imperfect. A spectacular finale for a series filled with intrigue, glamour, and mind blowing technology. One final chance for everyone to learn that the more you have, the more you stand to lose. 

I don’t have much to say about this book that will be different than what I mentioned for the previous book. The plot of this book was really good. Much like The Dazzling Heights, it started right in the action but the intensity of the action was a little milder because of the time gap. This book takes place about seven months after the events of the previous one. Due to this, the first few chapters of the book are spent reorienting the readers to what happened in the previous book and in the seven months that have passed. I was pretty surprised to see that there was a time jump because after the ending of The Dazzling Heights, I expected this book to start the next day or even a few hours later. I have no issues with the jump in time. I think it makes sense that a break had to be created between the ending of the previous book and the beginning of this one. It fits in perfectly, it was just a little unexpected.

I really enjoyed the ending of this book. I was able to predict a couple of bits and pieces but most of the ending was very unexpected to me. I really liked the unexpectedness of the ending because it didn’t let me down. I was expecting an interesting ending after reading the other books as they both had endings that were unpredictable. It was the ending of The Thousandth Floor which made me want to read the sequel. So this book delivered in terms of an unexpected ending, and it also managed to make the ending satisfactory. I didn’t feel like there were any loose ends that the author forgot about or that the author rushed through things and didn’t make the ending clear. Additionally, I found the ending to be mostly satisfying. There is one part of the ending that I am absolutely not a fan of as I don’t think the character deserved such a nice ending but other than that minor issue I am fine with the ending. 

 I will give this book 3 stars because the standards of drama were upheld as well as the satisfactory ending. I don't have much else to say about this book other than it was good and I liked it. Moving on to the series as a whole, I would not recommend it to anyone unless someone asked me for something in this style of high stakes drama. I am not going to give a blanket recommendation or say that if you like x, y, and z, you will like this series because I can't really pinpoint who the series is catered towards. I don’t usually read books like this and I enjoyed it but the series didn’t blow my mind or anything like that which is why I don’t think everyone will enjoy it. The best book in this series was definitely The Dazzling Heights, then The Towering Sky, and lastly The Thousandth Floor. I found the second one to be the most engaging, it was the one I couldn’t stop reading the most. Off I go to read some more!

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