The only reason they can stay in the forest and touch everything is because the forest is dead as well and has past into Everlost, too-as certain very loved things do. When they first land in Everlost they're in a forest with Lief a boy who died years and years ago.
If you don't do things right you could disappear into nothingness.or you could get caught up by the Everlost monster, the McGill-or something even worse as Allie and Nick find out later. Everlost, the desaturated world that's not living but not quite finished/all the way to dead either is a place of all new rules, people and ideas. Only they trip over each other and never quite make it to that light. Suddenly they find themselves falling through a tunnel towards a bright light. Nick and Allie are, separately, on their way somewhere with their families when there's an accident. Can't wait to finally finish the Skinjacker series. And then of course there's some Beauty and the Beast action with the McGill and Allie.Overall I just love this book. I suppose you could even consider Mary to be Peter Pan, what with her dressed in green and determined to keep everyone exactly as they are in Everlost. There's Peter Pan, with Allie even calling herself Wendy, not to mention Everland vs. You learn along with Allie and Nick, and even then you're not entirely sure what's true and what's not.Lastly, there's some pleasant retelling aspects that may or may not have been intentional.
But Allie's a know-it-all meanie pants, Lief is an annoying little twit, and Mary is a manipulative sky witch.It's also great how you slowly learn more and more about Everlost. I would say Nick is the only character I really actually like, and maybe the McGill a little just because I like heroic villains. And yet it's taken me years to come back and revisit it (and I never even finished the series because it was a single novel when I first read it).I really like how none of the characters are exactly likeable. This is one of the first Neal Shusterman books I ever read, and thus has a special place in my heart.
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