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?
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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.
