When high school wrestler Rowan Harper finds a costly ALS treatment that might save her dad, she delves into the seedy yet profitable world of illegal underground cage fights, jeopardizing a college wrestling scholarship and her love life.
“Sports fans and reluctant readers alike will enjoy the detailed, fast-paced wrestling matches and blow-by-blow MMA fight scenes. … Visceral and violent yet ultimately hopeful.” — Kirkus Reviews
Sixteen-year-old star wrestler Rowan Harper’s biggest fan is her father.
But he has ALS, and his symptoms are getting worse. Saving his life will cost more money than the family has, but Rowan finds a solution. Will she risk her chances at a scholarship by competing in a lucrative, but illegal, underground MMA fight?
Takedown is a high-intensity coming-of-age story about family illness and competitive combat, with lots of heart, hope, and headlocks.
“Bryan’s Takedown carefully balances dualities: ferocity and vulnerability, familiarity and passion, life and impending losses. Bryan has written a strong female protagonist … while never forgetting that Rowan is also a girl trying to make it through her adolescence and the day-to-day of high school.”
“A brave and riveting story about a teen wrestler fighting for her future, family and relationship. The writing is pitch perfect, captivating and emotional, giving insight into the intensity of wrestling, being a teen and fighting for family. It''s a page turner with action that will make your heart race!”
“With stunning accuracy and endless empathy, Bryan captures the delicate, gritty and complex reality of being both a wrestler and a teenager. Takedown is everything I love in a novel: heartbreaking, intense, romantic and powerful, and the writing is superb. A gut-punch of a novel.”
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