The Takedown

Okay so I obviously didn't DNF this book.
I almost did, but the mystery aspect kept me hooked. I freaking love mysteries okay? Plus, The Takedown turned out to be an okay book. I didn't feel any emotions from it, but I got used to the writing style and read nearly 350 pages of it in one night. So... yeah I'm glad I didn't DNF it.


The ending was clever. Basically take the culprit out of the running as suspect by having Kyle believe that it wasn't them in the very beginning? I liked it. Even after Kyle said it was her ex-bestfriend I didn't think it was Ailey. I thought it was Audra. And for a split second when I read the part about messing with the InStitches account I thought it was Kyle's mom WHICH LET'S BE HONEST WOULD MAKE FOR A VERY INTERESTING PLOT LINE. (Very My Sister Rosa-esque) Honestly the only character I really liked was Rory, and he was barely even in it compared to the others.

I'm glad I didn't give up on the book, and I definitely enjoyed it. However, it was kind of just a meh book. It didn't wow me, it didn't leave me feeling changed. I don't think it's going to be a book that stays with me forever. It was just a book.

End of extremely long probably boring review.

This is a fascinating YA book. It has the expected twists and turns but it is sharply on point with technology.

Staying vague in order to not spoil anything:

I am an educator and teach high school students. I have seen the struggles that, in 2017, they go through with social media. In their struggles I see the exact seeds this book explores. It takes the current problems being faced by many teens and then applies slightly more advanced versions of technology that we currently have... and makes for a delightfully believable dark mystery. I also appreciate that it isn't a paranoid cautionary tale trying to scare people away from social media. It instead is a “what if?” sort of scenario that is really fun to read.