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A review by thechanelmuse
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
2.0
The Taking of Jake Livingston isn’t what I was expecting. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, right? (I went into it blindly.)
In this paranormal-social thriller, Jake Livingston is a queer teen medium who sees dead people, including Sawyer, a troubled teen school shooter who takes the lives of six students, his own life, and plans to fulfill his vengeance for those he left behind...through Jake. There’s a lot going on, but everything about this debut book felt underdeveloped from the characters to the overall story. And not to mention, there is no clear connection between the two main characters. Odd.
In this paranormal-social thriller, Jake Livingston is a queer teen medium who sees dead people, including Sawyer, a troubled teen school shooter who takes the lives of six students, his own life, and plans to fulfill his vengeance for those he left behind...through Jake. There’s a lot going on, but everything about this debut book felt underdeveloped from the characters to the overall story. And not to mention, there is no clear connection between the two main characters. Odd.