Title: everlost

Author: neal shustlerman

Everlost is a great book, it makes you think about death a lot more than you did before.

Everlost is about these two kids that have a head-on car collision and they die, but they don't exactly get to 'the light' they get stuck in the world between life and death, called Everlost. When Allie and Nick first get to Everlost, they meet a little boy, named Lief. When Allie and Nick decide to go home Lief secretly follows them and when they're on their way they meet a girl, Mary, she seems like the queen of Everlost.

Mary wishes to be rid of Allie, considering her a bad influence on her flock. Soon, someone has hinted to Allie that there's a kid in Everlost who has learned the power of reaching into the living world. Allie talks Lief and Nick into going with her to see the Haunter.

The Haunter, however, isn't exactly a benevolent spirit. He traps Nick and Lief in pickle barrels and Allie herself barely escapes. When she goes back to Mary to ask for help in rescuing Nick and Lief, Mary refuses. So Allie takes things into her own hands and finds a group of bullies that had terrorized her on the way to New York.

Johnnie-O agrees to help, even though he doesn't like girls, based on the promise of the real food that they'll be able to plunder from the Haunter. But when they get back, they discover that the infamous McGill, the one true monster of Everlost, has been there before them. He trapped the Haunter in one of his own pickle barrels and took the others with him.

Now Allie is again on her own, since no one else will dare go against the McGill. She learns that she has the ability to skinjack, or take brief "possession" of living souls. Using this skill, she makes her way onto the ship that the McGill and his crew call home. After that, it is a battle of wills.