I thought it was particularly impressive that each book introduces new characters and increases the number of POV’s, but it doesn’t feel forced.įans of fantasy and science fiction who are looking for something completely new and not cookie cutter should definitely consider starting this series. As I continued through the trilogy, I came to genuinely care about the character. Did that pique your interest?Īt first, I kept reading to find out more about the world. I don’t want to spoil anything, but for people who’ve read the books: fortune cookies, pickle barrels, and the Twin Towers. The detail with which Shusterman has imagined this world is both unbelievable and hilarious. You might have noticed that most of my description has centered on the world building. As the series continues, the struggles between these characters heighten so do the stakes. When they find Mary, the queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he’s found his salvation, but Allie is more skeptical.

What’s even more frightening, if they aren’t careful afterlights risk forgetting who they are and falling into monotonous routines. Some souls are tempted into the criminal vocations of haunting. A monster named McGill is out to collect souls to hang upside down from his ship. Afterlights who stand in the same place too long since to the center of the Earth. They are caught in Everlost, a shadowy landscape where they can see what’s going on in the living world, but can only inhabit the memory of places, like the Hindenburg, that no longer exist.Įverlost is full of other in between children, referred to as “afterlights” and dangers that Nick and Allie never could have imagined.

The first book follows Nick and Allie, two teenagers who (as the tag line says) don’t survive the car accident … but whose souls don’t get where they’re supposed to go either.

I’m here today to tell you, that his Skinjacker series, starting with the first novel EVERLOST, is also something that should be on your radar.ĮVERLOST takes readers into a world in between life and death, but it isn’t your typical ghost story. Most of the buzz seems to be about his 2007 book UNWIND, which I haven’t read, but hope to soon. Which wouldn’t be a coincidence at all, except for the fact that I just heard about him in the past few months. I don’t know if this is a coincidence, or it is actually a thing, but I’ve been seeing Neal Shusterman’s name and his books popping up on lots of spots around the Internet.

Everlost trilogy