It does seem to be a well-written YA novel. It's not often that I return an Audible title, but this one is going back because I just can't put myself through the pain of reading it. There's a strong focus on school shooting, and I thought I could handle it, but about an hour and a half in I just can't stomach the reminder of how scared I was in high school. This book brought me right back to the terror of the American schooling system as I experienced it. I am graduated and gone from high school and college, but I was part of the post-columbine active shooter culture. High school soon becomes a different kind of survival game - one Jake is not sure he can win. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about dead world goes out the window as Sawyer begins to haunt him. Now he's a powerful, vengeful ghost and he has plans for Jake. In life, Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life. 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. Unfortunately, life as a medium is getting worse. 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. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. 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.

Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee.

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