Chews his gum extra loud and throws his voice in your face when he speaks. Then there’s Chad, the school bully and “one of those rugby dudes who can’t mind his own business. His only friend is Grady, who is nothing more than a “long lasting accident,” and his single-mother is a pilot who is often away for two weeks at a time, leaving Jake at home alone with his older brother, Benji. Clair Prep, real life is more problematic than what’s going on in the afterlife. Maybe ghosts who killed themselves get more autonomy when they cross over.įor Jake, an outsider and one of the only Black kids at St. As opposed to some people who did see it coming, because they brought it on themselves. Mine is that the people who end up trapped just didn’t see it coming, so their minds got stuck in a glitch. There are several theories for why death loops happen. They live inside death loops and can’t really interact with the world of the living. Mostly ghosts are harmless, at least in Jake’s experience. Jake Livingston, the sixteen-year-old protagonist of Ryan Douglass’s debut novel The Taking of Jake Livingston, can see ghosts.
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