The Takedown

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.