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Featured Book Trailer: The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom

Amanda Nelson

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Amanda Nelson is an Executive Director of Book Riot. She lives in Richmond, VA.

This week’s featured book trailer is for The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom. Check it out!


Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity in this action-packed debut thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to deal with the gangsters who have kidnapped her father.