Mary Hightower was that villain with the cliched “I’m doing this to protect you” motivation and was overall not scary or interesting. They both meet a kid, Leif, who was forgettable.
Nick was love struck throughout 90% of the book to someone we obviously weren’t supposed to trust, so I wasn’t really feeling anything for him, either. Other than that, she was a cardboard cutout of the strong, smart girl protagonist. The characters were pretty basic of course I liked Allie the most just because she was the only smart one asking questions and figuring things out. I don’t know, I feel like there was significantly less dead spots than there should have been, especially if we’re counting all life and not just people… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. There’s also the dead spots- spots where people died that the dead kids can step on so they don’t sink into the Earth. However, it does leave some unanswered questions why is it only kids are here? Is 18 the age limit? How did this place come to be? SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. While Allie doesn’t trust her and continues to question everything, Nick is in love and feels at home. It is there that they meet Mary Hightower, leader of all the other lost souls. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that’s why we’re here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.”Īfter Allie and Nick both died in a car crash, instead of going into that bright light, they end up in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. Now, I don’t really read that many Middle Grade books? I mean, I knew it was MG and their voices would be younger than I was used to, but it younger than I was already expecting it to be. So… because I decided to buy this whole boxset series off a whim… I have a weird obligation to review it. It’s kind of strange, but I think I bought the majority of Neal’s books spontaneously. “Monster only had the power that you gave them” Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers Published: October 1st 2006 In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the “Criminal Art” of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost. When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he’s found a home, but Allie isn’t satisfied spending eternity between worlds. It’s a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. Instead, they’re caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. …but their souls don’t exactly get where they’re supposed to get either. Nick and Allie don’t survive the car accident…
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