cady_sass 's review for:

Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang

2.0

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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First of all, this is absolutely not a thriller so my expectations were in the wrong place. The premise seems like it could lean that way - a Russian spy placed strategically in Silicon Valley to collect and pass data gets caught by a grunt worker? The action sequences could write themselves. But instead this focuses more on misogyny in the work space (tech spaces specifically) and the internal struggle of her reconciling the life she built to become a spy against actually being a spy. We don’t have anything super exciting happen, there aren’t any big reveals, I suppose it’s an interesting character study but a little lackluster and forgettable.