There is No Cloud by Kat Wheeler

 

Author: Kat Wheeler

Title: There is No Cloud

Genre: Tech Mystery

Release Date: January 12, 2021

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You never know what’s listening….

As a sales rep for SmartTech, the world’s largest home automation company, Cameron Caldwell’s job is to keep customers happy… and buying. That means the current bane of her existence is a rival company’s home AI device, the HomeTech Hub. Her customers want to use the HTH’s voice commands to control the electronics she’s selling them—and if she wants to keep selling to them, she needs to make sure that happens. Why can’t they just ask it the weather and be happy with that?

While attempting to get tech support for one of her clients, Cameron finds something strange in a HomeTech Hub and is immediately curious. Is there something about the product no one’s supposed to know? But when people start dying, she knows something far more complex is going on, and she’s determined to find out what the technology the whole world has let into their homes actually does.

As Cameron digs deeper into something she never thought would be possible, she starts to wonder what she’s gotten herself into… and whether she’ll be able to get out.

 

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Rating: 4.5*

I like to mix things up every now and then and take a step back from my favourite genre of romance and indulge in a suspense/thriller read.  I needed a change when I got the opportunity to read this and I was not disappointed.

This book wove its story around the fact that technology is in every part of our lives and we rely on it so much but equally we are producing so much data around what we are doing at every moment online. But what happens if this could all be collected - the power it could wield for the person collecting it. It explores power beyond the big techs' data collection and the power they wield. 

Cameron is a sales rep for a home automation company who comes across devices that won't integrate as they should. Closer investigation reveals an extra chip in the devices. What Cameron quickly discovers is that those behind the chip have already killed once and won't hesitate to kill again to keep their secret and power. With the tech savvy behind the scenes, it doesn't look likely that anyone will get close enough to the killer, until Cameron starts to close in.

This was a book with present day relevance. It kept me on the edge of my seat throughout and kept me guessing. There were plenty of twists and turns along the way that had me hooked and not wanting to put it down.

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Kat has worked for eighteen years in sales in the AV industry, her love for technology starting early with her first computer, a Commodore64 at age six.  She loved it until she realized you could put a magnet to the screen and it made pretty colors.

Kat spends a lot of her time traveling. She’s been to forty-six states and lived in six.  She loves yoga, poker, sports, and all things technology.  Her dreams are to one day stop travelling so much and be able to own a dog and to be the first woman to win the World Series of Poker Main Event.