The Dazzling Heights (The Thousandth Floor #2)

I can’t help myself, I love this series. It’s like if Melrose Place was in the future but they were teenagers. So good. A lot of futuristic books are too far-fetched to be believable but this one is plausible. Sometimes it feels like there’s too many characters to keep track of, but then they all kind of interweave together so it ends up making sense. If you were hesitant because you don’t know if you should be reading YA books as an adult, just throw out a side, set up the hammock, fix a mimosa, and enjoy.

A great young adult series… plenty of twists and turns, and suspense! This book was hard to wait until the next commute to listen to more!

Started slow like the last book but quickly became a page-turner (so to speak)! Wowwowowowow!

This was a great sequel – I enjoyed the new characters that were introduced and the new plot lines. Even in my late twenties, these books are such fun escapes and so imaginative of the future of our society! Very easy listening.

First off I should note that I\’m not the target audience so I might not enjoy it as much as it deserved. I feel like book 1 had a lot of kind of sappy romance supported by a cast of interesting characters with really fascinating motivations and pressures. Leda, for example, felt like a person dealing with a very real problem with drugs. Her relationship to Atlas was just a reason for the drug plot to get accelerated. Eris was a fascinating character torn between being okay with her new life and wanting the trappings of her old one. Good characters. Book 2 kind of sand-blasts off all the interesting facets of the characters and leaves the boring parts. Leda doesn\’t have any drug problem anymore, despite being under a huge amount of stress, because, and I quote, \”it had become a matter of pride, and Leda\’s pride was even bigger than her anxiety\”. The key to what made her interesting in the first book just explained away. Avery and Atlas continue to be pretty boring characters. Atlas has no real defining features other than loving Avery and being persued by other girls, and Avery is frankly very unreasonably jealous and hard to sympathize with. She doesn\’t tell Atlas anything about the events of the first book for no real reason because of plot requirements and mostly just mopes about. Every time a male and female character are together, no matter who it is, they feel intense sexual tension between each other. I mean literally every male and female character. Avery and Cord, Rylin and Cord, Rylin and her teacher, Leda and Watt, everyone. All the relationships seem purely sexual (nothing like Mariel and Eris, which actually felt real and sweet). Basically repeats the story of the first book but without those elements of the first book that made it good.

Galaxyaudiobook Member Benefit

- Able to comment

- List watched audiobooks

- List favorite audiobooks

- Bookmark will only available for Galaxyaudiobook member