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Friday, July 17, 2009

Everlost


Shusterman, Neal. Everlost. New York: Simon & Schuster Books, 2006. 318 pages. (Mystery/Fantasy)

Everyone says that you see, "the light" before you die and that may all be true, but it's another story when your on your way to that "light" and something or someone knocks you out of the tunnel. This is exactly the mishap that happens to Allie and Nick, the not so lucky kids of a head on car accident. Nine months later they awake in a forest thinking that they were just thrown from the vehicles and help will be coming soon. Until they meet another unfortunate soul who has forgotten his name they do not understand all the surroundings and that they are dead. Allie is determined to get back home while Nick is just following along hoping that something good will happen soon. When Allie and Nick reach the site of where the Twin Towers once stood tall in New York City, Nick meets the love of his after life, Mary Hightower. Allie knows that something isn't right about Mary and refuses to stay under her so called, "protection." Nick thinks that he has found a place just as good as heaven only Mary isn't all that Nick thinks. Allie finds loop holes to Mary's books that she writes in Everlost to keep the Afterlights from finding out the truth. Another unlikely character is introduced as no other than the McGill. The McGill is the nastiest, meanest, most deceiving soul in Everlost who chimes and Afterlights that get into his traps. What will happen when Allie, Nick, and Lief come to close encounter with doom with the McGill? Read the pages of Everlost to find out!

Everlost was the best fiction ghost book I have ever read! Every page held a new mystery or a new riddle for the characters to solve! It is a fun book to read and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who scared easily!

Reviewed by: BlueBerryBuddy