The Dazzling Heights

By Katharine McGee

New York City, 2118. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible – if you want it enough.

The dazzling sequel to The Thousandth Floor.

Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a beacon of futuristic glamour and high-tech luxury… and to millions of people living scandalous, secretive lives.

LEDA is haunted by nightmares of what happened on the worst night of her life. She’s afraid the truth will get out – which is why she hires WATT, her very own hacker, to keep an eye on all of the witnesses for her. But what happens when their business relationship turns personal?

When RYLIN receives a scholarship to an elite upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. But being here also means seeing the boy she loves: the one whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.

AVERY is grappling with the reality of her forbidden romance – is there anywhere in the world that’s safe for them to be together?

And then there’s CALLIOPE, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who’s arrived in New York with a devious goal in mind – and too many secrets to count.

Here in the Tower, no one is safe – because someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. After all, in a world of such dazzling heights, you’re always only one step away from a devastating fall….

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Sep 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9780008179939

Katharine McGee

Katharine McGee is from Houston, Texas. She studied English and French literature at Princeton and has an MBA from Stanford. It was during her years living in a second-floor apartment in New York City that she kept daydreaming about skyscrapers . . . and then she started writing. She now lives in Philadelphia. The Thousandth Floor is her first novel and The Dazzling Heights her second.

Reviews for The Dazzling Heights

[mrnattania72 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Not You Average 2nd Sequel.
This sequel not leads up to the final installment, but has some great scenes of deception and lies swirling around and mixing together like cream into coffee, creating a delicious dessert. It's fun to read about rich people lying and deceiving each other

[jessika.c · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Since I guess I’ve resigned myself to continue reading this until the bitter end I thought about giving my brain a cast of characters:Mariel - Rosa SalazarEris (I know she’s only there in memory but still) - Katherine McNamaraAvery - Dove CameronLeda - Amandla Stenberg (tbh I hated how she was always cast for every YA book mixed girl role out there but funny enough I couldn’t picture someone else like Zendaya or Yara Shahidi)Atlas - Austin Butler (I figured he had to be ridiculously hot if everyone and their mom was drooling over him)Watt - Avan JogiaCalliope - Hailey Baldwin (lol I know)Rylin - Eva NoblezadaCord - Logan Shroyer (I had to google his name but my brain kept telling me ‘that one guy that plays teen Kevin’ on This is Us ahahaha)Because I’m too lazy to write a review I’ll just write my thoughts when I was reading: Is this really going to be the exact same story as the first book? Oh boy…let me get a drink. So….Calliope is the next goner?…Travis…Atlas?? The only thing that would surprise me is if Avery dies HA. Calliope has sympathy for my homegirl Leda…I still don’t like her lol. GO RYLIN… HAHAHAHa called it. Leda Cole deserves better…so does Watt for that matter…Oh no. Geez why is Atlas so attractive to everyone? Older Anderton is right he is boring. I totally forgot the dude’s name ha…I AM HERE FOR THIS. I’ll spare you any spoilers from here on out.No one really develops. It’s just a bunch of girl drama over the homicide of Eris, and I know it sounds so flippant the way I’m describing it but it’s true. There is not a single female relationship that sounds genuine. At least there’s no slut shaming this time around. I’m still not into Avery and Atlas’ relationship, it’s just weird and seems like pure lust. But the other relationships that turn up are just as toxic though they all have waaaay more chemistry. I’m trash, so naturally I gravitated towards those ones over the supposed main one. The ending was really lame to the point where I rolled my eyes. I was so disappointed in the direction the author took the second book because it was cheap and annoying. It was not unexpected though. So help me, but I’m totally going to finish this series just to see what happens to Leda because no matter what anyone says she’s totally my antihero that I want to see get out of this mess and get help.