Margot Mertz Takes it Down

Description

Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting contemporary YA novel about Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and is hellbent on taking down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school. For the right price, high school student Margot Mertz will go to the ends of the internet to remove your virtual skeletons or mortifying DMs. But when a fellow student hires her to take down some leaked nudes, Margot discovers a secret revenge porn site featuring her classmates. Margot is hellbent on taking the site down - and the mastermind (read: asshole) who created it. So with the help of an unwitting ally, Margot starts to dig. But as the case becomes darker and the feels get deeper, Margot realizes some jobs are so dirty, no-one comes away clean. Even her. A hilarious and biting contemporary novel about making the dirtbags pay.

Carrie McCrossen is a regular writer/performer at UCB, a contributor to Funny Or Die, and has acted on shows including Divorce and Adam Ruins Everything. Ian McWethy is a prolific playwright, having written 40 plays that are immensely popular with high schools, where his one-acts are routinely among the top ten most produced in the US.

'The ultimate horror story for Extremely Online People. In their engrossing debut, Carrie McCrossen and Ian McWethy have crafted a twisty-turny narrative that had me laughing one minute and screaming the next. Margot Mertz is the hero we all need!' - Adam Sass, award-winning author of Surrender Your Sons 'A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt mystery starring a hilarious, spiky, and loveable heroine. Margot takes on the two most gut-churning institutions: patriarchy and high school. What can I say? Margot Mertz Takes My Heart!' - Ash Parsons, author of You're So Dead 'A thoughtful, funny, righteously angry take on a serious subject.' - Kirkus Reviews 'McCrossen and McWethy don't pull punches (the victims' distress, and the fact that no-one thinks the school administration will intervene, are realistically rendered), while making Margot a sympathetic, fury-propelled narrator with a winningly noir-inflected voice.' - Publishers Weekly 'In their debut novel, McCrossen and McWethy have tackled a pertinent and sensitive topic and buoyed it with the hilarious awkwardness characterising the teenage years ...The witty first-person perspective and Margot's self-assurance will have readers breezing through the story.' - Booklist 'Margot's righteous fury will resonate with many readers, who will cheer her efforts to protect victims, gain justice, and enact revenge, and it's during her undercover capers that the novel is at its best ... a realistic alternative to recent angry-girl revenge-fantasy novels.' - BCCB