The Warehouse

by Rob hart

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2019 by Crown.

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

(11 reviews)

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 that risks both their …

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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cdm reviewed The Warehouse by Rob hart

Amazon meets George Orwell

4 stars

Content warning Summary

It is a great book. I liked the story the more I read it.
It's about a company like Amazon or Alibaba
The main actors are working for the company called "Cloud"
The main female character is an investigator who applied to work there but got into the picking position where she can't find out much about the business as she will be busy all day picking stuff in the warehouse.
The main male character is a failed entrepreneur who got into the security position because he worked in that field before. However, he wanted to work in the picking position because he didn't like his last security job.
The founder of "Cloud" has cancer and is also writing about his life in his personal blog.

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.

patchworkbunny reviewed The Warehouse by Rob hart

Review of 'The Warehouse' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A bit cheesy in places and some things didn't quite make sense (who is buying all this stuff if there aren't really jobs outside Cloud?) but overall I enjoyed it and there are some good ideas. I might even review this one properly...watch this space!