By: Neal Shusterman Publisher: Simon Pulse Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Simon Pulse Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 384 Publication Date: November 06, 2007 Reading Level: Young Adult
Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now their souls are stuck halfway between life and death in a sort of limbo called Everlost. It's a magical yet dangerous place, where bands of lost souls run wild andanyone who stands in the same spot too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
Frightened and determined, Nick and Allie aren't ready to rest in peace just yet. They want their lives back, and their search for a way homewill take them deep into the uncharted areas of Everlost. But the longer they stay, the more they forget about their pasts. And if all memory of home is lost, they may never escape this strange, terrible world.
From J. Kaye's Book Blog Everlost is a place where you're not quite dead, yet not alive either. That's what Nick and Allie discover after they died from a car accident. Later when they reached into the dead forest they meet a fellow afterlight (a person who lives in everlost) who Allie suggested they called him Lief (because Lief forgot his real name).
When Allie and Nick tried to go home they meet a gang of bullies, the Queen of Snots, a neagrathal called Haunter, and a monster named McGill.
This is required reading???? This book was required reading for my son this summer. It amazes me that such a poorly written book had ever gotten any awards for anything. The characters are underdeveloped, the plot is inconsistent (my son pointed that out midway thru) and it has terrible loopholes throughout the entire book. If you can avoid this book do so, if I could have gotten my son out of reading this garbage I would have. Unfortunately the author is visiting the school in the fall. Really too bad tripe like this is still in the reading chain, it certainly has been a waste of the summer.
A lot of food for thought! I just finished reading this and I have called up some middle school students and their parents so they can all read this book for summer reading! Very interesting premise and some unique characters. In America, we don't talk about dying or our reactions to death so this book would be good to bring to the dicussion. Allie and Nick were victims of a car accident and now they are in flux. They meet many others on their journeys and find that even in flux between life and death, the one thing that will numb one's brain is repetitive routines that are done without thinking and without wanting change. How many of us don't want change or look at change as a terrible thing....almost worse than death. Some characters are absorbed by the numbing routine and no longer have memories of their own names. Other characters seek to appear to be kind, generous, and loving but really want characters to need them because that need generates power. Everlost is a terrible place for bullies...they can't physically injure anyone and they can't kill anyone. However, one monster of a character does exist and how our interpid Allie and Nick each deal with him depends on their goals/missions. The notion that there are dead buildings and dead roads, and dead spots where people died, and dead train tracks made me look around my town when driving home from work. When giving directions, we often tell people that the police station is across the street from the Federal Building. Well, the Federal Building has been gone for some 15 years! Was interesting to see how the Twin Towers, post 911, figured into one of the settings. Later middle schoolers and early high school students should enjoy this book. I read that it is coming out as a movie in 2009. I will definitely want to see it. I would teach this book with: Gods of Manhattan, The Afterlife, Elsewhere
Awesome-Limbo World The amazing world of everlost is filled with afterlights,greensouls, and one monster named McGill. McGill travels in a ship looking for trapped greensouls. The book starts out with Allie and Nick getting in a car accident and landing in Everlost. They soon meet Lief and they travel to New York. They meet Mary Hightower and Nick grows very fondly of Mary. But Aliie still doesn't trust her and soon leaves. O.k I won't tell you the whole story but I highly recommend this book!!!5 STARS!!!!
My Review for Everlost Will Allie, Nick, and Leif ever get out of Everlost? Everlost tells the story of the three children; Allie, Nick, and Leif adventuring through Everlost. Nick and Allie died of a head on collision on the way to a wedding. They did not even know each other. They woke up in a forest and saw this kid. They asked him what his name was and he did not remember his name because he had been by his self for so many years. So Nick and Allie named him Leif because he lived in a lush green forest. Leif explains that people in the living world have no effect on us Afterlights, and we are ghosts. Nick Allie and Leif adventure through Everlost to find out more about this second world. They go through Manhattan, New York and see the Twin Towers that had crossed into Everlost when they were attacked. They meet Mary a leader of a group of Afterlights. They get caught by the McGill, a monster that captures children to try to get his life in the living world back. They escape from the McGill and defeat him with Mary and the kids that she keeps track of. The McGill was defeated and there were no more threats in Everlost. Although Nick, Leif, and Allie could never get out of Everlost, They were happy.
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