A Party In The Steel Forest Analysis

To prevent the upcoming death of a teenage girl, a security officer infiltrates a group of teenage aristocrats and uncovers a tangled web of secrets tightly concealed by the social elite.

The prologue opens at the end of a lavish Manhattan party on the thousandth floor of a futuristic tower in the year 2118. As the guests leave, a young woman mysteriously falls to her death.

Three months earlier, ZAY WAGNER drops AVERY FULLER off at her family’s 1000th floor penthouse after a date. Avery prepares for bed before climbing up the maintenance ladder to climb up to the platform of the iconic metal sphere at the top of the tower so she can forget about her romantic feelings towards her adopted brother ATLAS.

LEDA COLE returns to the city after

Afterwards, she goes out with her boyfriend HIRAL and their friends. They all meet a drug dealer named “V” at a party in the “steel forest” underneath the tower and take a group drug called “communals.” As the drug kicks in, Rylin receives a call from Cord demanding that she come work his party that night, so Rylin reluctantly

Because the four main characters rarely interact with one another, its difficult to feel like there is any magnitude of the events taking place thus far. For example, after Rylin is forced to work Cord’s party, she is not seen again until after the party, four chapters later, when she ends up staying after the party and kissing Cord. If Rylin interacted with Cord or Eris at the party, it seems like there would be more consequences underlying that event. It would have also given the reader more insight into the nuances of the tower’s hierarchical social-system. Everything we learn about these characters is through backstory or a second-hand source, making it far less interesting than if it was gradually revealed in real time through their choices and interactions with other