DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE FIRST BOOK!
Description: In this riveting sequel to "Everlost," Nick, the Chocolate Ogre, wants to help the children of Everlost reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Mary Hightower wants to trap the children forever, and joins Pugsy Capone, Death Boss of Chicago, who gains allies in a terrible way.
Everlost was a great book, but the sequel knocks it out of the water. Again Neal's writting is unique, and now-a-days, his writting style is hardly used anymore. I couldn't put the book down! There were plenty of new characters which moved the story along. I got very involved with the plot. It was fun to read, and brillantly written. I would recommend this series to anyone. Young Adult or not.
(5/5) Very well done. Bravo.
~Ally-Cat
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Description: There was the rumor of a beautiful sky witch, who soared across the heavens in a great silver balloon. And there were whispers of a terrible ogre made entirely of chocolate, who lured unsuspecting souls with that rich promising smell, only to cast them down a bottomless pit from which there was no return. Everlost, the limbo land of dead children, is at war. Nick the "Chocolate Ogre" wants to help the children of Everlost reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Mary Hightower, self-proclaimed queen of lost children and dangerous fanatic, is determined to keep Everlost's children trapped within its limbo for all eternity. Traveling in the memory of the Hindenburg, Mary is spreading her propaganda and attracting Afterlights to her cause at a frightening speed. Meanwhile, Allie the Outcast travels home to seek out her parents, along with Mikey, who was once the terrifying monster the McGill. Allie is tempted by the seductive thrill of skinjacking the living, until she learns a shocking secret: Those who skinjack are not actually dead. Critically acclaimed author Neal Shusterman writes a book about life, death, and how the choices we make define ourselves in this luminous sequel to Everlost, which Orson Scott Card called "marvelously inventive...and magically beautiful."
Overview of the Characters
Allie-(aka Allie the Outcast) She is my favorite Everlost character. She's pretty, intelligent, and caring. Allie hates Mary and knows that she is wrong in keeping Afterlights in Everlost. She is unlike other Afterlights because she can skinjack. We first see her in Everwild, as a finder, traveling with Mikey McGill. Then she runs into a group of skinjackers. One of them a very charming and handsome Milos. Mikey and her travel to Memphis with the group of skinjackers. On the way she learns new ways to skinjack. She also, later, finds that she is not dead.
Nick- (aka Chocolate Ogre) the chocolate has now spread to almost his entire body. Nick is also a smart guy, and has changed much from the way he was when he was a newly Afterlight. Johnny-O and he have teamed together to send Afterlights to get where they were going. However, Nick also believes that Mary will start a war against him and so he travels to Everwild (the south) on a train run by Charlie and meets many Afterlights and Zach the Ripper and tries to get them to help him defeat Mary.
Mary Hightower- (aka Megan Mary McGill) She is beautiful and cunning. She died hundreds of years ago with her brother Mikey, and had been proclaimed "Queen of Snots" when she lived in the NY Twin Towers. Now she travels in the Hindenburg with Speedo as the pilot. She still loves Nick, but hates that he's betrayed and now opposes her. She is quite frankly, crazy. She is obessed with the Afterlight children. She wants them to be with her so that she can watch over them as they find there "special activity". She is a character you love to hate. She teams up with the Death Boss of Chicago. She also meets a skinjacker named Jackin' Jill. There, in Chicago, she unveils something that makes her plans enhance even more and makes her look even more crazier than ever before. Will she be defeated by Nick? Will her plan succeed?
Mikey McGill- (aka The McGill) Once a feared monster of Everlost, is now a finder that travels with Allie and tries to help her in her journey to finding her way home. Not the brightest Afterlight in the book, but not the dumbest either. He also has the ablity to change his apearance by will; this he keeps a secret. Mikey loves Allie even though he doesn't fully acknowledge it until 1/4th of a way into the book. He becomes jealous of Allie and Milos and runs away after seeing them kissing, leaving Allie heartbroken. Filled with misery, Mikey changes back to the McGill and takes over a group of Afterlights and makes them his minions. Will Mikey ever see Allie again?
Zach the Ripper-(aka Zinna) She is 14 years old. She died in the Civil War. Yes, Zach is a girl. She pretended to be a girl to get into the army. Unfortunately, she dies from a cannon. While in the tunnel, she remembers her family and how she left them behind so she grabs a piece of the light and head to Everlost. This gives her the power to "rip" into the living world and take things out of it. Later she finds the Challenger, a rocket, and lives there for a long time with her dog, Kudzu, collecting weapons from the living world. Then she runs into the Chocolate Ogre and everything's changed.
Milos- He is a skinjacker. A Russian-born 17 years old who died by falling off a roof. Milo's is out to get Jackin' Jill who betrayed his group and his feelings. Milos is desperate to love and be loved. He falls to easily for girls and tries too hard to be loved back. It's kind of creepy how dedicated he is to please the girl he "loves". He is insane about it in his own little way. . .
Jackin' Jill- She is odd. She's mysterious. We don't get to see her side as much as the others. We don't know how she dies, but I'm pretty sure she fell from a tree or something; we don't even know her age. She betrays Milos and then goes to work for the Death Boss where she gets him "loyal" Afterlights. But how she gets them is so. . . horrible. Mary and Milos eventually find out what she does.
I loved this book. The new characters are brilliant! Everything was fantastic. Awesome job, Neal!
(5/5)
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~Ally-Cat
1 comment:
Again, I didn't feel like making a whole new post for this, but I fixed Review: Everwild. There were a few mistakes that needed correcting. Just an FYI...
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