Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang

I’m not going to lie, I really didn’t want to write about this book. I try to keep my opinion to the last paragraph in order to not sway you on what I think about it and you can draw your own conclusion if you want to read or not. But I just did not like this book. I try to give books 50-100 pages before I decide maybe this book is not for me. I feel ok with doing this especially since almost all my books I get for free through the online Seattle Library database. But for books that I have bought, I pretty much force myself to read and finish them due to my money being spent on it. So that is where I found myself with this book. I tried so hard to like this book or to get into it but up until the last page I just was not seeing the greatness.

Imposter Syndrome is a chronological story that jumps from character to character. The story begins in 2006 Moscow, where Julie Lerner has just been recruited by Russia’s largest intelligence agency. It fast forwards to 2018 where she is the COO of one of the largest upcoming companies in Silicon Valley. But she’s hiding something from the people she cares about and people she works with, which is she is sending the information she learns at her company, Tangerine, back to Russia. When a fellow employee starts to notice this data breach, Julie has a lot to decided on where her loyalties lie.

I felt like there were so many other paths this book could’ve taken. I found myself wanting more or even less in certain parts. That the book description pulled me in but was just left with open hands wondering what next. Also, for someone who knows pretty much nothing about the scene of Silicon Valley or just the tech industry in general, lots of the book went over my head as I just didn’t understand the references. I found myself researching more on the side just to understand what was going on. I love when books make me think or I find myself wanting to research more about them but what I am not a huge fan is researching just so I get a small inclination of what is even being discussed. So in the end this book was a dud but that is ok as I have so many more I want to read.

Until Next Time, The Library Abroad