![]() ![]() This book honestly has everything I want: horror, a vengeful ghost, LGBTQIA+ rep, written by a Black author (& ft’ing a Black main character), a stunning cover and it’s pitched as Get Out meets Daniella Vega. Hello, hi! Do you have a second for me to introduce you to my most anticipated book of 2021?! I’m still in shock that Penguin Teen gave me the chance to read The Taking of Jake Livingston before its release I have been at the edge of my seat waiting for my pre-order to arrive for months. Add The Taking of Jake Livingston on Goodreads!Ĭontent Warnings: School Shooting, Gun Violence, Racism, Homophobia, Attempted Rape, Suicide High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, 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. Synopsis: Get Out meets Danielle Vega in this YA horror where survival is not a guarantee. ![]()
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