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- 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.
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Jul 13, 2021 · A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake.
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Jul 13, 2021 · 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.
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- The horror stories that inspired The Taking of Jake Livingston are ones I picked up in libraries as a kid. Everlost by Neal Shusterman was my first foray into a fantastical dead world.
- In my high school library, I discovered Carrie by Stephen King and it changed my relationship to the horror genre. As an outcast myself, Carrie’s ostracization at school felt very close to home, and (spoiler alert) her joy at finding belonging with her peers, only to realize she was being tricked, struck a personal chord.
- Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas, about a 20-year-old medium who converses with the dead, gave me more of what I was craving in that paranormal powers department, but in a more adult setting.
- As for movies, my favorite recent horrors have been The Conjuring and Insidious. Both are by James Wan, who I find to be a master of supernatural, domestic horror.
THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON. Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead.
Jul 13, 2021 · 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...
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.
Sep 6, 2021 · 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.
