Scan barcode
A review by chuskeyreads
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
2.0
I really wanted to love this book. I mean, look at that cover! Alas! It was not to be.
The story is all over the place to the point that it’s a little hard to follow. The characters are flat, and I just felt nothing for the main character, Jake. You have no back story for why he’s able to see that’s and ghouls, and there’s a discrepancy between whether he was 10 or 5 years old the first time he’s aware.
The story seems forced, and the characters just appear without any introduction - as though the reader is supposed to know who they are ad how they fit into Jake’s world just by calling them by name.
The prose is just… weird.
”I see bloody shower water leaking down the walls of my eyes when I close them.” <\i>
The story is all over the place to the point that it’s a little hard to follow. The characters are flat, and I just felt nothing for the main character, Jake. You have no back story for why he’s able to see that’s and ghouls, and there’s a discrepancy between whether he was 10 or 5 years old the first time he’s aware.
The story seems forced, and the characters just appear without any introduction - as though the reader is supposed to know who they are ad how they fit into Jake’s world just by calling them by name.
The prose is just… weird.
”I see bloody shower water leaking down the walls of my eyes when I close them.” <\i>