What do you think?
Rate this book
Repository
In a future without politicians where the economy depends on 3D printers, the manual labour of androids, recycling, and a platform called Repository, a girl's investigation about the disappearance of homeless people and migrants not only threatens her life, but the existence of her society.
321 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 25, 2017
1 person is currently reading
8 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
July 20, 2017
A Near-Future YA/Cozy Mystery with A Somewhat Predictable End
Set one hundred years in the future, Repository is the story of Maya Bell, an eighteen-year-old university student who stumbles across an apparent murder. Teaming with a classmate from high school who’s now a policeman-in-training, Damien Cain, they pursue the case as it grows from an isolated incident to a major conspiracy built on a heinous disregard of life.
Repository has the feel of a young adult or cozy mystery even if it’s not classified that way (it’s in the Mystery/Thriller, women and amateur sleuth genre on Amazon). That feel suits the story well, as much of the excitement comes from the optimism and enthusiasm of youth. Why call in backup or carefully stake out a potential crime scene when you can rush in unprepared? But that feel also dampens some of the emotion when its needed. On discovering the atrocious nature of the crime they were investigating, the comment was that it’s “…horrible and really disgusting.”
Maya was easy to like as the over-achieving, guilt-ridden student turned sleuth. And other than the immaturity that seemed extreme in places, Damien was as well. Pacing was good, although there seemed some unnecessary repetition. Overall, the plot was somewhat predictable; it was fairly clear from about the middle of the book what was happening and how it would end. The details getting there, of course, were unknown and the author does an admirable job keeping the reader immersed to the end.
As a story set one-hundred years in the future, Repository provided a somewhat ‘mixed bag’ of future technology. One gadget that was featured was wearable computing in the form of glasses – a tech novelty that may have already come and gone. And a lot of the technology seemed 2017 era – emails and dishwashers – or not as far along as you might expect, e.g., androids could be distinguished from humans because of their unsynchronized lip movement. In 100 years, really? But there were androids and an Artificial Intelligence with a personality chip, the latter being a lot of fun.
So, if you’re a fan of well-written, YA/cozy mysteries and don’t mind a somewhat predictable finale, you’ll enjoy Repository.
Set one hundred years in the future, Repository is the story of Maya Bell, an eighteen-year-old university student who stumbles across an apparent murder. Teaming with a classmate from high school who’s now a policeman-in-training, Damien Cain, they pursue the case as it grows from an isolated incident to a major conspiracy built on a heinous disregard of life.
Repository has the feel of a young adult or cozy mystery even if it’s not classified that way (it’s in the Mystery/Thriller, women and amateur sleuth genre on Amazon). That feel suits the story well, as much of the excitement comes from the optimism and enthusiasm of youth. Why call in backup or carefully stake out a potential crime scene when you can rush in unprepared? But that feel also dampens some of the emotion when its needed. On discovering the atrocious nature of the crime they were investigating, the comment was that it’s “…horrible and really disgusting.”
Maya was easy to like as the over-achieving, guilt-ridden student turned sleuth. And other than the immaturity that seemed extreme in places, Damien was as well. Pacing was good, although there seemed some unnecessary repetition. Overall, the plot was somewhat predictable; it was fairly clear from about the middle of the book what was happening and how it would end. The details getting there, of course, were unknown and the author does an admirable job keeping the reader immersed to the end.
As a story set one-hundred years in the future, Repository provided a somewhat ‘mixed bag’ of future technology. One gadget that was featured was wearable computing in the form of glasses – a tech novelty that may have already come and gone. And a lot of the technology seemed 2017 era – emails and dishwashers – or not as far along as you might expect, e.g., androids could be distinguished from humans because of their unsynchronized lip movement. In 100 years, really? But there were androids and an Artificial Intelligence with a personality chip, the latter being a lot of fun.
So, if you’re a fan of well-written, YA/cozy mysteries and don’t mind a somewhat predictable finale, you’ll enjoy Repository.
July 19, 2017
I wish I could give this a 3.5. The bulk of the book is fun with interesting characters and concepts. The writing is solid, though nothing amazing. Unfortunately the ending, while not bad, doesn't have the kind of pay off you'd expect given the rest of the book. It ends rather cliche-y.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews