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Ryan Douglass

    Ryan Douglass is een auteur wiens debuutroman voor jonge volwassenen ingaat op de complexiteit van identiteit en volwassen worden. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door een scherp inzicht in het innerlijke leven van personages en hoe zij hun plaats in de wereld smeden. Douglass' stijl is zowel intiem als onrustbarend en zet lezers aan tot reflectie op hun eigen ervaringen. Via zijn verhalen onderzoekt hij thema's als ergens bij horen en de zoektocht naar waarheid.

    The Taking of Jake Livingston
    • The Taking of Jake Livingston

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Sixteen-year-old Jake sees dead people, but when one ghost starts menacing him, Jake soon realises he's out of his depth. Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not guaranteed. 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, 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. High school has become a different kind of survival game – one Jake is not sure he can win.

      The Taking of Jake Livingston2021
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