“On the surface, The Warehouse is a thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level, but dig a little deeper and you’ll find a terrifying cautionary tale of the nightmare world we are making for ourselves.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter
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 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.
Wow! This book! I felt like I was reading a scary version of Amazon and the Cloud! I mean you never know right? I feel companies like Amazon, Disney, etc are taking over the world in their own ways. Don't come for me!
This book is told in three different POV's. Paxton gets hired on at Cloud as a security officer. He didn't want this particular job but with his history of being a prison guard, he got it anyway.
We have Zinnia and this is not her real name. She gets the job Paxton wants, just running around filling orders like a crazy person. Sounds so familiar. Zinnia and Paxton have a friendship etc.
Then we have Gibson who is the owner of Cloud. He tells his story and how he started Cloud through-out the book.
The Cloud is supposed to be helping people in the world with jobs and with being able to get help without leaving their homes. They even have schools and banks; it's rather creepy.
Through-out the book you find things are not as cozy as they seem. Zinnia is there on her own mission and she finds out some really, really disturbing stuff! DO NOT EAT THE CLOUDBURGERS! But there were little things I thought were gross and should have been taken care of in a world so perfect as this.
Oh and the employees have little homes, well cubicle like apartments they live in and they can upgrade if they save enough to afford it.
Anyway, I enjoyed the book, it creeped me out and I'm glad I have started to buy more things from actual stores again!
*I would like to thank Netgalley and the Publisher for asking me to review this book. All thoughts are my own.*
Happy Reading!
Mel ♥
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