Ebook previously provided by NetGalley for review. Thank you.
2/5 stars
Set in a non-specified but possibly not too distant future where Cloud *cough*Amazon*cough* is everything. They have squashed small businesses and are pretty much the only option. MotherCloud is where people live and work in various departments from picking to security to medical care.
We follow Gibson, the founder of Cloud, terminally ill and set to announce his replacement, Paxton a former prison guard whose small business was killed by Cloud and Zinnia who has her own agenda.
So I knew early on that this book wasn't going to be gripping enough to be a four star rating because the nature of their jobs - Paxton as security and Zinnia as a picker - was very monotonous and the narrative deliberately played on that monotony but I was feeling a 3 star for a good long while until the last quarter or so. Not a lot happened and then everything happened very quickly without warning, there were elements that could have been taken further, the "big reveal" was underwhelming, we never learn Zinnia's motivation and the ending was very abrupt.
Steff Out x
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