#dazzling heights

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When your fave author is also likes your fave actor lol

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Title: The Dazzling Heights

Author: Katharine McGee

Summary:

All that glitters is not gold.

New York City, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amid high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets…

Leda is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She’ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden—even if it means trusting her enemy.

Watt just wants to put everything behind him…until Leda forces him to start hacking again. Will he do what it takes to be free of her for good?

When Rylin wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight. But being there also means seeing the boy whose heart she broke, and who broke hers in return.

Avery is tormented by her love for the one person in the world she can never have. She’s desperate to be with him…no matter the cost.

And then there’s Calliope, the mysterious, bohemian beauty who arrives in New York determined to cause a stir. And she knows exactly where to begin.

But unbeknownst to them all, someone is watching their every move, someone with revenge in mind. After all, in a world of such dazzling heights, just one wrong step can mean a devastating fall.

Rating: ★★★★★

Review:

Please be Leda in the prologue. Please be Leda in the prolog. Please make Leda deada.

“So she told him everything.”—Page 71

THANK GOD! Make Cord happy!!

Oh, c’mon Cord! You love Rylin.

“Rylin whirled around, only to see her worst nightmare standing there. Leda Cole.”—Page 73

Ledaaaaaa.

“Then again, Rylin was pretty, if you could look past her disrespectful attitude.”—Page 78

Leda, sweetie, YOU ARE THREATENING HER. Get off your moral high ground.

“This would be fun.”—Page 82

My god, I hate Leda.

Skinny jeans are still fashionable after 100 years?

Rylin, I’d beg Cord to be my partner before I’d ever ask Leda. That’s like walking into the lion’s with a 12 oz. steak.

I don’t trust Xiayne.

I’m guessing that they’re going to use this vid-cam to get Leda.

Oh my god Calliope and Atlas had a thing!!! I should have seen that coming! This is going to be interesting.

“For once, it would seem like a boy had chosen Leda Cole over the flawless and untouchable Avery Fuller.”—Page 122

Fuck Leda.

I swear to god if Leda and Watt fall for each other, I’m going to scream.

Brice is such a dick.

Eris’s girlfriend is at this party.

WATT THIS IS INCREDIBLY STUPID!

Cord, you still love Rylin.

“It can’t ever work. It’s impossible. Aves, it might be best for us to just…stop.”—Page 230

And, I don’t really care.

“And then Leda realized exactly who she could ask. Someone who couldn’t make any demands of her, who would let her go to yoga and holo screenings instead of all the actual rehab activities. Someone who couldn’t tell her no.”—Page 235

I. Hate. Leda.

“MCBURGER KING! 2 FOR 1 BURGERS ON MONDAYS!”—Page 239

Weird.

“Yeah right. You would rejoice if I was tortured,”—Page 262

I would!!

Watt, you’re going over to Leda’s place? That is totally insane. Also Leda turning around and just apologizing to Avery just came out of nowhere. I think there should have been a chapter where we see this transition from Leda and Watt going home and thinking about all these things.

Also, I don’t care how innocent Avery is, I would not forgive Leda for killing Eris. Leda was and arguably still is fucking nuts.

Rylin this is a bad idea and I’m glad she’s handling it pretty good.

Avery…you’re going crazy.

“What the hell is a rodeo?”—Page 314

Lol.

“Maybe I’m just sick of everyone thinking I’m a coldhearted bitch,”—Page 327

Well…you are.

Oh great, Avery is being irrational. This won’t end well. Is she going to kill Calliope?

I thought it was Atlas who had ended it first.

Calliope’s real name is Beth and I think she’s going to die.

“What had happened to him? When had he become the type of person who tried to trick other people into revealing their darkest secrets?”—Page 379

Number 1, Leda was blackmailing you. Number 2, SHE FUCKING MURDERED SOMEONE! Eris is dead because of Leda, she deserves to be punished.

Mariel drugged Leda. Guess the shoe’s on the other foot.

Calliope knows that Atlas and Avery have a thing for each other.

Oh shit now Mariel knows everything!! Oh shit, now she’s going to tell the truth about Eris. At the beginning I said I wanted her to be deada but I want her to live with the fact that she killed her sister.

I really don’t like Watt and Leda. Avery and Watt just have such better chemistry.

FUCK OFF AVERY! GODDAMMIT! I just want Rylin and Cord to get together.

“I’m falling for you.”—Page 412

Poor Watt.

WAIT WHAT?? MARIEL IS THE ONE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK?! But…what? Why?? What just happened???

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Rylin was getting pretty sick of the boys in her life making decisions without bothering to consult her. They kept kissing her when she didn’t want to be kissed, or not kissing her when that was all she wanted; hitting on her and breaking up with her; forcing her to steal drugs and sell drugs and then forgive the whole thing; pulling her this way and that until she was stretched unbearably thin. When did Rylin get to make up her own mind, for once? When would she get a damned say in any of it?

-Rylin Myers, The Towering Sky (The Thousandth Floor Series) 

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Nearly a quarter way through Dazzling Heights and I still fucking hate Leda.

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