The Taking of Jake Livingston

The Taking of Jake Livingston

Taschenbuch
2.85

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Beschreibung

A New York Times bestseller

Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not guaranteed.

Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. 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 Clair Prep. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. But things at St Clair start looking up with the arrival of another Black student – the handsome Allister – and for the first time, romance is on the horizon for Jake.

Unfortunately, life as a medium is getting worse. Though most ghosts are harmless, Sawyer Doon wants much more from Jake. In life, Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life. Now he’s a powerful, vengeful ghost and he has plans for Jake. High school has become a different kind of survival game – one Jake is not sure he can win.
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Taschenbuch
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246
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Beiträge

4
Alle
3

I feel like this book had a strong start, but since many things were left unexplained I felt a bit lost while listening to the audiobook. I would definitely recommend reading this book physically, as it might give the reader a better opportunity to really take in all the elements of the story, but I do think that some paranormal things should have been explained in more detail for the book to really have its effect.

1.5

ich interessiere mich so wenig für das Buch, dass ich nicht mal Lust habe mir Gedanken darüber r zu machen, wieso ich es nicht mochte.

5

Grusel, Gay und mega spannend

TW: G3walt, Bl00d, s3xuelle B3läst!tung,D3ath Absolut großer Spaß an Horror und hitziger Spannung bis zur letzten Seite. Wir begleiten Jake Livingston in seinem High School Alltag, während Ghoule und allerlei Geister ihm nachstellen. Natürlich darf sein Love Interest nicht fehlen, der meiner Meinung nach auch super zu Jake passt. Auch gaben die finalen Kämpfe der Story ihre verdiente Action. Es gab mehrere Ohje!- Momente, aber auch wow! - Momente. Das worldbuilding war gut, auch wenn es wenig war, wurden die Orte so weit gut beschrieben; es war beabsichtigt so wenig wie möglich zu beschreiben, damit sich der Leser ein eigenes Bild machen kann "Vorstellungskraft".

2.5

YA Horror, heavy topics, creative worldbuilding, important discussion about racism, homosexuality, homophobia, child abuse, bullying, mental health, school shootings. What could have been better are the horror elements, the relationships between characters, the queer romance and the ending.

„It seems impossible to turn something so pretty so ugly, but it’s not. Everything turns ugly after it’s dead.“ „It’s amazing how many people don’t wanna look racist and how few care about actually being it.“ „The trouble with my mother is she’s too busy pretending problems don’t exist to ever really fix them.“

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