8,380
edits
Changes
Everwild by Neal Shusterman (view source)
Revision as of 15:20, 17 January 2010
, 15:20, 17 January 2010no edit summary
Nick - the Chocolate Ogre - disagrees and he roams Everlost with a bucket containing coins that provide passage into the light. He wants all Afterlights to find their way to their originally intended destination. Allie (the Outcast) is a skinjacker - she can possess and inhabit the bodies of the living. All Allie wants is to find her family and tell them that she's ok - after that, she thinks she'll be able to take her coin and move on.
The first book built up to and ended in the inevitable stand-off between Mary and Nick but it wasn't completely final, and several subplots remained unanswered. ''Everwild'' takes up shortly after the previous climax and it's clear from the get-go that a bigger confrontation is unavoidable. Both begin venture to the margins of Everlost - ''Everwild'' - to raise armies of Afterlights, while Allie continues the search for her family and learns a great deal more about skinjacking.
And I loved it! The overlying narrative is pacy and tense, but the tension is punctuated by some wonderful slapstick humour, superb satire and umpteen clever pop-culture references.