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Queer FantasyLGBTQ+ Young AdultGhost Stories

The Taking of Jake Livingston

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  • 2021 first published
  • 256 pages
  • 4 editions
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Ryan Douglass's The Taking of Jake Livingston (2021) is a queer fantasy and LGBTQ+ young adult fiction novel. Characters include Jake Livingston and Sawyer Doon. Readers will find themes of LGBT and Queer.

26 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list in 2021.

It runs to roughly 256 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

About The Taking of Jake Livingston

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 and Jake is always happy to help them move on to the next place, 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. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about dead world goes out the window as Sawyer begins to haunt him. High school soon becomes a different kind of survival game—one Jake is not sure he can win.
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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Young Adult Hardcover, 2021

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Characters

  • Jake Livingston
  • Sawyer Doon

Subjects

  • Young adult fiction, ghost stories
  • Horror
  • Young Adult
  • LGBT
  • Fantasy
  • Paranormal
  • Queer
  • Thriller
  • Contemporary

Quick answers

Who wrote The Taking of Jake Livingston?

The Taking of Jake Livingston was written by Ryan Douglass and first published in 2021.

What genre is The Taking of Jake Livingston?

It is usually shelved as Queer Fantasy, LGBTQ+ Young Adult, Ghost Stories and Horror.

How long is The Taking of Jake Livingston?

The median edition has 256 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Taking of Jake Livingston?

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