With the heightened ability to charm almost everyone, while
carefully concealing her heinous desires, Mary Hightower
was hibernating or in an "interlight state" in a glass
coffin waiting to be reborn as who she was back in
Everlost, a place between the living and before the light.
Meanwhile, tied to the front of the train heading west,
Allie the Outcast seems to have little chance of escape,
let alone to find out what happened to Mary, her nemesis.
After having peered in Mary's mind, Allie was shocked to
discover what Mary Hightower was secretly planning to do
and Allie vowed to destroy Mary before she could do the
ultimate evil deed.
Mary had an army of children that she gathered to help her
with her dark mission and Milos was determined to keep
them together until Mary woke up. As a skinjacker, Milos
had the ability to move into the bodies of living people
and could make them do his will. Only those souls who were
not dead and in deep comas could be skinjackers and Mary
had gathered as many of them as she could to carry out her
real mission, unbeknownst to her followers. Allie is one
of the best skinjackers there is and Milos has no
intention of setting her free. Yet when a mansion lies on
the train tracks and blocks their way, events take a very
dramatic turn!
Fans have already been raving about the first two books
written in The Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman, the
renowned bestselling author of young adult fiction, and
they are sure to be wowed with Book 3 with its powerful
percussion of a grande finale! The characters are
wonderfully drawn and Shusterman marvelously captures the
essence of each character in a very unique way, while
representing a certain type, so these otherworldly
characters are easy to picture in your mind. The plot
while relatively simple to follow is masterfully intricate
and full of unexpected triumphs and disasters. While this
engrossing and bewitching afterlife story is can be read on
its own and enjoyed, its full flavor can best be
savored by reading the whole series in sequence. Totally
awesome and fantastical! A must read!
As Mary Hightower slumbers in a glass coffin waiting to
be reborn back into Everlost, her allies and henchmen begin
to carry out her terrible mission. Mary’s army is joined by
a newcomer: Jix, a spy for the Mayan King of Everlost. A
furjacker who skinjacks great cats, Jix has his own
agenda.
Meanwhile, Mikey McGill desperately tries to
rescue Allie the Outcast. At his side is Nick the “Chocolate
Ogre,” who has become pure chocolate and hardly remembers
himself at all. Mikey encounters a creature that scares even
the mighty McGill: a scar wraith, whose touch can extinguish
an Afterlight forever.
It becomes clear that the
outcome will determine not just the fate of Everlost, but
the fate of the living world as well.
Critically
acclaimed author Neal Shusterman brings to a close the
trilogy that Kirkus Reviews called “beautiful and
imaginative” with this stunning final volume.
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