Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Takedown by Corrie Wang

Kyla Cheng has a pretty good life: she's pretty, popular, and smart. All that is eclipsed, however, when a video is posted of her having sex with a teacher. The video is a fake, but nobody believes that -- even in the unspecified near-future time of the book's setting, the tech doesn't quite exist to make such a seamless fake. The only way for Kyla to get her life back is to find her hater and get the video taken down.

This techie mystery has good pacing, interesting characters, and a solid plot. Some readers may be put off by the invented future slang/text speak, but fans of realistic YA should take a look at this one.

(Reviewed from an advance copy, courtesy of the publisher.)

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