The Warehouse

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2019 by Crown.

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

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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 …

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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.

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