A thriller about a social tech company entering the Chinese market and rigging US elections?
You have my attention.
Welcome to Circles (not to be confused with Egger’s disaster of a novel the Circle): a company with 2 billion users, questionable boardroom politics, and based on this book, no female employees.
It’s a breezy read, the premise is great, the plot and characters middling, but I still enjoyed it. The author gets lots of things wrong about a thinly veiled fictional Facebook (I.e. only 2 billion users? Not if I have anything to do with it! And while we’re at it, it’s ’terms of service’, not ’terms of use’), but the surprising part is that the book is engaging in a this-is-obviously-fiction-but-not-offensively-bad sort of way.
I loved the ending, the events of the book had no statistically significant affect on Circles visitation. Probably only other Circles employees would appreciate the irony.