The Warehouse is based around 3 main characters and the book is set out in 3 different narratives, Paxton, Zinnia and Gibson Wells. its set roughly 30 years in the future and after a massacre across the USA during the black Friday sales, The Cloud (an online shop like Amazon) has wiped out almost all regular retail outlet after the public feared shopping in the conventional way and has become the number 1 employer in the US with huge live and work centres called motherclouds.
Paxton was a young entrepreneur whose invention a machine that cooked and peeled eggs perfectly every time. after supplying the product to the cloud the company he created eventually folded due to the cloud driving down his profit margins and he was forced to seek employment at the cloud himself.
Zinnia is a corporate spy who has been hired to get inside the mothercloud and find out how it was run and to look for evidence to bring the empire down.
Gibson Wells is the owner and founder of the cloud. His life is coming to an end due to cancer and he is travelling round all the motherclouds in the country.
The story itself follows Paxton and Zinnia during their day to day lives at the mothercloud. Paxton is involved in a task force searching out drug smuggling into the most secure compound in the US and Zinnia is trying to find away to infiltrate what seems to be an impossible system to hack.
in between Wells gives a background into the cloud and his life in the form of a blog.
As the story progresses Zinnia and Paxton begin a romantic relationship and this causes Zinnia to consider how her actions might affect Paxton.
As Zinnia takes more risks Paxton's job in security puts him at risk, and a visit from Wells culminates in a thrilling series of events which leaves all 3 characters in life threatening situations and leaves Paxton living in daze a with no purpose going through the same routine when a chance meeting gives Paxton the focus he needs and forces him to choose between living the cloud life or following Zinnias thoughts on freedom.
The book is well written and gives a worrying look into the future regarding climate employment and energy. it was difficult to put down and kept you wondering where it was heading till the very end. I thoroughly recommend it and will be looking out for future releases by the author.
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A glimpse of a near future?
Really good read. Takes the issues centred around capitalism, climate change and wraps them in a really good story.Anyone fancy a CloudBurger?
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