Life, death and the in-between
Nick and Allie become souls in Everlost after a fatal accident, a realm positioned between life and death.
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Neal Shusterman - Author
A darkly imaginative fantasy about two souls navigating a perilous realm between life and death. It combines supernatural adventure with questions about belonging, mortality, choice and whether remaining between worlds can become a home.
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. 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. 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. 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. 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. In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between. (Book Cover)
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA darkly imaginative fantasy about two souls navigating a perilous realm between life and death. It combines supernatural adventure with questions about belonging, mortality, choice and whether remaining between worlds can become a home.
Nick and Allie become souls in Everlost after a fatal accident, a realm positioned between life and death.
Nick feels he has found a home with Mary, while Allie rejects spending eternity between worlds and learns haunting despite warnings.
The story begins with a fatal car accident and centres on souls unable to reach their destination. It also includes haunting, dangerous territory, a threatening monster and children in peril.
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