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A review by ambershelf
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
3.0
Claudia Lin is not your typical "nice Asian girl." She doesn't want a conventional career at Fortune 500 companies, nor does she want a Chinese boyfriend. In fact, Claudia works at a stealth online-dating detective agency as a "verifier," and she prefers girls. In this mystery debut, Jane Pek weaves an intriguing story of an amateur sleuth on a mission to find her missing client while reflecting on her identity and balancing family expectations. I find the author's examination of how we have informed artificial intelligence and how algorithms have changed human behaviors, albeit inadvertently, refreshingly fascinating. As a debut novel, some sentences run a bit long and bulky, but I enjoyed Jane Pek's humorous and, at times, sarcastic style. Very excited about her future work!