The Warehouse

by Rob hart

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2019 by Crown.

ISBN:: 978-1-9848-2379-3
OCLC Number:: 1111684791

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.

Paxton never thought he’d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that’s eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he’d be moving into one of the company’s sprawling live-work facilities.

But compared to what’s left outside, Cloud’s bland chainstore life of gleaming entertainment halls, open-plan offices, and vast warehouses…well, it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s more than anyone else is offering.

Zinnia never thought she’d be infiltrating Cloud. But now she’s undercover, inside the walls, risking it all to ferret out the company’s darkest secrets. And Paxton, with his ordinary little hopes and fears? He just might make the perfect pawn. If she can bear to sacrifice him.

As the truth about Cloud unfolds, Zinnia must gamble everything on a desperate scheme—one …

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.

As the truth about Cloud unfolds, Zinnia must gamble everything on a desperate scheme—one that risks both their lives, even as it forces Paxton to question everything about the world he’s so carefully assembled here.

Together, they’ll learn just how far the company will go…to make the world a better place.

Set in the confines of a corporate panopticon that’s at once brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, The Warehouse is a near-future thriller about what happens when Big Brother meets Big Business--and who will pay the ultimate price.

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Julie R reviewed The Warehouse by Rob hart

tightly plotted

4 stars

A tightly plotted dystopian novel that feels a little too real at times. By that I mean that I couldn't just read through this in a day even though the syntax was smooth and the characters were engaging; it was depressing. I do think Hart tries hard to make the characters balance out that realness-fatigue, and it helps. I was particularly satisfied with how he wrote the CEO interludes--they do an excellent job of portraying the cognitive dissonance.

PeterB reviewed The Warehouse by Rob hart

Review of 'The Warehouse' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The Warehouse is a near-future science fiction story about what could happen if the warehouses of Amazon got out of control and Jeff Bezos made some odd and far-reaching decisions.

The book is written from the point of view of 3 people. Each chapter takes us into the life of one of them. The writing style is really enjoyable and some interesting techniques are used that really gave the right impressions of what it could be to live in the titular warehouse. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was a real pageturner.

The story itself is interesting but not terribly original. I have a feeling the future is going to be stranger than what Rob Hart is predicting. However, it is really exciting and you do want to continue and read that next chapter to see what the other character thinks of the situation and what happens with them.

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MrDRR

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Oct. 24, 2020

cjhubbs

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Dec. 14, 2019