Allie is tempted by the seductive thrill of skinjacking as she masters the skill, until she discovers the shocking truth about skinjackers: skinjackers are not necessarily dead or alive. Along the way, Allie meets three other skinjackers, led by a boy named Milos. Meanwhile, together with Mikey, Allie the Outcast travels home to look for her parents and her own life. With her abilities, Nick begins to devise a plan to confront and defeat Mary. Zinnia has the ability to 'rip,' breaking the barrier between the living world and Everlost to pull or push things through. Nick follows the rumor of 'Zack the Ripper', revealed to be Zinnia, a girl who died in the Civil War while pretending to be a boy. Due to the rumors Mary has spread about the Chocolate Ogre Nick is being overwhelmed by the memory of the chocolate stain on his face, and he is unable to stop the chocolate from spreading over his body. Nick, in control of a train, is heading south to gather his own support against Mary. Traveling in the memory of the Hindenburg, Mary spreads her propaganda and attracts Afterlights to her cause at a frightening speed.

Allie sets off with Mikey, who was once the terrifying monster, McGill, in the book Everlost, to find her parents in hopes that she might put her spirit to rest meanwhile, Nick finds himself in a race against time to save the Afterlights from endless entrapment in Everlost by the Sky Witch, Mary Hightower. The book is the second book in the Skinjacker Trilogy, which takes place in Everlost, a limbo-like place between life and death.Įverwild continues the stories of Allie and Nick as they pursue separate goals. Everwild is a 2009 fantasy novel by the young adult fiction author Neal Shusterman.

Everwild by neal shusterman