But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St.
Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. My only issue was that I felt the progression of the story stalled at times in the middle of the book, but it never stopped me from wanting to know more and loving the book.Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee. It’s hard to talk about the plot without giving anything away, but it’s an easy book to recommend for anyone interested in the mixture of genres this book falls into. I found the chapters where the reader was given insight into Sawyer’s mind to be a lot darker than I expect from a YA book, but they were powerful, important to the overall story, and very well written. The subject matter can at times be difficult to read about. This book has so much to unpack and was a much deeper story than I expected when I first picked it up. THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON is a fantastic take on paranormal meets thriller meets horror.
I think the examination of race and microaggressions definitely hits that mark, but if you’re looking for a similar story, this is something totally different. I’ll pretty much read anything compared to one of my all-time favorite horror movies. THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON first caught my eye because of the comparisons to the movie Get Out. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, Sawyer has plans for his afterlife - plans that include Jake. But then Jake meets Sawyer, a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Most are harmless and stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again without interacting often with people. In fact, he sees the dead around him all the time. As if fitting in wasn’t hard enough, Jake can see the dead. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St.
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