For anyone who has lost a friend or loved one at an early age, this is a good read. But the overall message (that there is existence after life and purpose to that existence and a destination when one is finally ready for it) is one of comfort.
A quirky sense of humor pervades, which helps to lighten what would otherwise be a disturbing concept. But Nick and Allie know there must be something-somewhere-else, and they are determined to find out what and where that is. Led by Mary, the Queen of Snot, threatened by the Great McGill and his pirate band, these children have come to accept that this is where they belong and will always be. Learning to cope with their new state of being, they arrive in New York City, where a band of lost children have taken up residence in the Twin Towers, which still stand tall in Everlost. They find they are neither living nor spirit they now exist in Everlost. Goodreads Rating: 3.Death isn’t an easy subject to write about, but Shusterman handles it deftly, as he explores what happens to two children who are “lost” on their way “towards the light.” Nick and Allie have never met, but both are involved in a fatal car accident. 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'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. Goodreads Summary: Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident.
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