The Takedown
Author: Corrie Wang
Publication Date: April 11, 2017
Publisher: Freeform
Pages: 384
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Find it: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Goodreads
Synopsis: Kyla Cheng doesn’t expect you to like her. For the record, she doesn’t need you to. On track to be valedictorian, she’s president of her community club, a debate team champ, plus the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez has firmly attached himself to her hip. She and her three high-powered best friends don’t just own their senior year at their exclusive Park Slope, Brooklyn high school, they practically define the hated species Popular. Kyla’s even managed to make it through high school completely unscathed.
Until someone takes issue with this arrangement.
A week before college applications are due, a video of Kyla “doing it” with her crush-worthy English teacher is uploaded to her school’s website. It instantly goes viral, but here’s the thing: it’s not Kyla in the video. With time running out, Kyla delves into a world of hackers, haters and creepy stalkers in an attempt to do the impossible-take something off the internet-all while dealing with the fallout from her own karmic footprint. Set in near-future Brooklyn, where privacy is a bygone luxury and every perfect profile masks damning secrets, The Takedown is a stylish, propulsive, and provocative whodunit, asking who would you rely on if your tech turned against you?
About the Author
Corrie Wang is passionate about libraries, road trips, and eating all the food, everywhere. Corrie grew up in Buffalo but spent her formative years in Brooklyn, where one of her last paying gigs was managing a three-story nightclub on the Lower East Side.
She currently lives in Charleston, where she and her husband Shuai Wang own and operate Short Grain food truck— named one of Bon Appetit magazine’s Top 50 Best New Restaurants 2016 and a 2017 semi-finalist for a James Beard Award. The Takedown is Corrie’s debut novel.
And fyi it’s pronounced Wong y’all.
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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
4/10/2017- Tales of the Ravenous Reader– Blogger Post
4/11/2017- Here’s to Happy Endings– Spotlight
4/12/2017- YA and Wine– Review
4/13/2017- BookHounds YA– Blogger Post
4/14/2017- Storybook Slayers– Review
Week Two:
4/17/2017- Dazzled by Books– Review
4/18/2017- Wandering Bark Books– Blogger Post
4/19/2017- MEREADALOT– Review
4/20/2017- Book Briefs– Review
4/21/2017- Savings in Seconds– Review
I love the cover for this book so much! I don’t think that I have read the synopsis before and I had no idea that this is a mystery. Thanks for sharing it! 🙂
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This book definitely has a neat cover – that was the first thing that I really found myself drawn to about this book!
This sounds pretty interesting! Have you read this yet?
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I haven’t gotten to it yet, no! It does sound very interesting, though!