If you get rated a one-star employee then you are terminated on cut day and asked to leave. All you have to do is show up for your assigned job (chosen for you by some algorithm) and achieve high ratings. They have their own currency system and police force. They work and live on a climate control property.

Most of the world is unemployed and surviving by the skin of their teeth, but for around 30 million people Cloud is a haven. Like any good dystopian fiction it takes real life challenges and extrapolates them into a worst case scenario. The world has gone to waste with global warming, gun violence and increasing influence in government by corporations. The narrators of the audiobook were great, I really liked both of them.Ĭloud is obviously based on Amazon. I listened to the audiobook and it was an enjoyable listen, but the ending got a bit too unbelievable for me. 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. Together, they’ll learn just how far the company will go…to make the world a better place. If she can bear to sacrifice him.Īs 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. And Paxton, with his ordinary little hopes and fears? He just might make the perfect pawn. But now she’s undercover, inside the walls, risking it all to ferret out the company’s darkest secrets. Zinnia never thought she’d be infiltrating Cloud. Much less that he’d be moving into one of the company’s sprawling live-work facilities.īut 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. Paxton never thought he’d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that’s eaten much of the American economy. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.

Synopsis: Cloud isn’t just a place to work. Buy this book at: Amazon | B&N | Book Depository

The Warehouse by Rob Hart