First Impression Friday – The Warehouse by Rob Hart

Welcome to another First Impression Friday. In case this is your first time, here’s the rundown:

• Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions
and predict
what you’ll think by the end.
• Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think
you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right?
• Link back to Storeys of Stories so I can enjoy reading all the
First Impression Fridays out there!

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.

Let’s talk about The Warehouse by Rob Hart.

I have a digital ARC through NetGalley, but I didn’t find it. It found me. I don’t search for a lot of NetGalley titles, because that got me buried in ARCs for most of 2018 and I didn’t enjoy it. But then I received an email from a Marketing Manager at Crown books. She mentioned since I enjoyed Foundryside (which I did, very much) I should check out the Warehouse. And I’m so glad she did.

I LOVE this book. So unique. So intriguing. Funny in all the right ways, yet still mysterious.

My Prediction: 4.5 stars

Fun fact about this post: The Warehouse is also a very possible future for the world we’re living in.