Summary: 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. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. 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. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win.
Review: I hated this book. The only reason I finished it was because I gave myself a goal of reading 24 books in 2022 and was falling behind. This book tried way too hard to be "scary" but in turn, just sucked. There was no exposition. I felt like I missed book 1 where everything about the supernatural was explained. Honestly, there is a chance I missed some things because I was listening to it and maybe I got distracted but there were so many times where I was confused, I don't think I spaced off that much. Jake is a medium and can see the dead. He has some medium mentor I guess but she's in it once and very little goes into that. There was just so much that I felt needed to be explained that wasn't. It just went straight into the action. Also, the characters were dull. Jake is the only character that went through any kind of arc but the resolution of that felt really rushed at the end, like the author was just trying to tie up loose ends. There were a few different story lines that tried to interact and run parallel, but they just didn't work. I liked what this book was trying to do, but it just didn't get there.
Date Finished: March 27, 2022
Format: Audiobook
Genre: YA Horror
Rating: 1.5/5
Trigger Warning: language, violence, supernatural, homophobia, racism, death, school shooting, gun violence, sexual assault, domestic abuse
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