Rich in detail, with exceptional characterization and shot through with unexpected (and very necessary) humor, this is an engrossing and thoroughly satisfying ending to a unique saga of life after death. Alliances form and melt as characters decide between their own self-interest and what is right the shifting third-person perspective gives readers glimpses into everybody’s souls. And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie. I always wonder what's going to happen next. But even those rules can be overset with the introduction of Clarence, the scar wraith, whose touch can extinguish anyone out of existence-forever. 'Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese. The rules of Everlost are unique, catering to the children who go there upon death and wait until they are ready to go into the light. The adventures continue, with Mexican Afterlight Jix joining the cast of characters as a furjacker, slipping into the bodies of giant cats as he spies on Mary’s army for the Mayan King. Shusterman ends his provocative trilogy with a rock-solid adventure that manages to examine deep questions of faith and morality.Īt the end of Everwild (2009), Nick the Chocolate Ogre had dissolved into a mass of chocolate pudding, Mary Hightower was asleep in a glass coffin waiting to be reborn, Allie the Outcast was strapped to the front of a runaway train and Mikey McGill (formerly the monstrous McGill) was searching for a way to rescue her.
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