Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

17 reviews

cheerful_bursts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Odd Thomas for YA. Left me wanting a lot more in a good way. Audiobook was excellent. A lot of triggers to be wary of:

suicide, child abuse, rape, murder, school shooting, death, loss of a loved one, animal abuse (insects), torture, violence, cheating

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual assault, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

allyah's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Mental illness

Minor: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Incest, and Pedophilia

miaaa_lenaaa's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

<SPOILERS>

Bro this was so good

You did low key scare me that jake and allister werent gonna get together

Like i think maybe there were a couple things i think could have been a little better? Like fiona doing a complete u turn on all her friends in like a day, fiona and allister helping jake get the diary but then not being in it till the end basically? but it wasnt enough of an annoyance for it to be 4 stars

It did scare me, but also it almost made me cry and was v v cute

Also im a big fan of the general concept

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

being_stupid's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Bullying, Racism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Homophobia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Drug use and Mental illness

anger566's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Homophobia, Gun violence, Death, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Suicide, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Racism

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

nothingrhymeswithrachel's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Bullying, Child death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

melaniereadsbooks's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Thank you to Netgalley, Bookish First, and Penguin Teen for an arc of this book. 

Jake Livingston can see Dead World, and it's having quite the effect on his life. But when the ghost of Sawyer Doon, a deceased school-shooter, escapes his loop and starts going after others, he finds a particular interest in Jake and his medium abilities. Jake will have to stop Sawyer before he kills more people.

There are a lot of really great things about this book.  I love the exploration of his sexuality that Jake goes through, and the character growth that happens. I love the idea of dead world and medium who has to stop the ghost that escaped his loop.

Some things that tripped me up about this book were the pacing and the writing style. Even though I thought the plot and characters were really interesting, I felt the pacing was too slow for what was actually happening, and I just didn't love the writing style.  There were times when it was too much in a characters head and other times when it spent too long on descriptions.

This was a good spooky thriller with a lot of meaning behind it though, and I absolutely love the cover! 

Pub date: July 13, 2021

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Mass/school shootings, Animal death, Death, Child death, Abandonment, Murder, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Violence