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A review by ruth24
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
5.0
All I really knew before picking up this book was:
1) Something sketch had gone down in Silicon Valley
2) Elizabeth Holmes liked to wear black turtleneck sweaters like Steve Jobs
If fiction and non-fiction faced off against one another for my affections, fiction would always win. Hands down. Which is why I was a little apprehensive when I reached for this book (my month-long reading slump was not that far behind me), but Bad Blood unfolds like Netflix's Making a Murderer... you have the feeling that it couldn't possibly get worse, but then it does! And then it gets even more twisted and f*ed up than before! As I read on, my curiosity about Elizabeth Holmes grew to the point that I had to read her Wiki page and watch several YouTube videos about her after I finished the book. Was she really faking that deep voice? How did she convince so many smart people to back her ridiculous company?
This book was a juicy mystery, a shocking tell-all, a psychological profile, and an HR manual for what not to do. I've given four books 5/5 star ratings so far this year and this is one of them.
1) Something sketch had gone down in Silicon Valley
2) Elizabeth Holmes liked to wear black turtleneck sweaters like Steve Jobs
If fiction and non-fiction faced off against one another for my affections, fiction would always win. Hands down. Which is why I was a little apprehensive when I reached for this book (my month-long reading slump was not that far behind me), but Bad Blood unfolds like Netflix's Making a Murderer... you have the feeling that it couldn't possibly get worse, but then it does! And then it gets even more twisted and f*ed up than before! As I read on, my curiosity about Elizabeth Holmes grew to the point that I had to read her Wiki page and watch several YouTube videos about her after I finished the book. Was she really faking that deep voice? How did she convince so many smart people to back her ridiculous company?
This book was a juicy mystery, a shocking tell-all, a psychological profile, and an HR manual for what not to do. I've given four books 5/5 star ratings so far this year and this is one of them.