AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Verifiers by Jane Pek
REVIEW:
Claudia is an investigator for a dating service. Verifying that people are who
they say they are. When Claudia goes rogue, she relies on her years of reading
mystery novels and the detectives whose stories she has been reading for
years.
This is a unique and entertaining who-done-it while also being about family
and family expectations. Claudia comes from a traditional Chinese family, and
she is anything but traditional. Her job isn't one her parents would approve
of and the only person she desires to marry is another woman.
It's great to have an Asian main character who doesn't follow the stereotypes.
What a fantastic debut. The second book is already out, and I can't wait to
read it.
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Publisher: Random House Audio
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Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority
expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career
or a nice Chinese boy. She’s also used to keeping secrets
from them, such as that she prefers girls—and that she's just
been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating
detective agency.
A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate—and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.
A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate—and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.
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