I'm not going to be a popular person after I say that I thought Hush, Hush (Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2009) was a completely mediocre book. So, why is it that I cannot figure out why this book, Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush, has this title? After finishing the nearly 400 page tome, I don't know who is supposed to be hushing or why. I can wax poetic about the symbolism of the conch shell in Lord of the Flies or the the merits of Jane Austen vs. And I've been teaching literature for a long time. And everyone falls in love.Ĭontinue reading "Everlost & Everwild: Something happened on the way to Heaven." » Allie questions authority, saves her friends, and outsmarts the McGill. Shusterman's characters all have different ideas of what being an Afterlight means, and Nick in particular searches for his purpose in his new world. But Everlost is more than just a thrill ride. The action doesn't let up, even beyond the climax at Atlantic City's long-gone Steel Pier. Let's just say that Allie and Nick encounter everything from kid pirate-monsters to the Hindenburg to prophetic fortune cookies. Hundreds of younger Afterlights live under Mary's watchful eye, and while Mary and Nick become enamored with one another, Allie doesn't like what she sees. There they meet Mary Hightower, the forever fifteen year-old mother hen of Everlost. With Lief in tow, Allie and Nick walk all the way to New York City and find themselves at the Twin Towers, which exist now in Everlost as a huge "dead spot," that is, a place only visible to the dead, where Afterlights (what the kids in Everlost are called since they glow) cannot sink into the earth of the living world. He seems a bit gloomy and whiny at first, but he grows into a courageous and thoughtful hero. Nick's face is eternally smeared with chocolate, as he was downing a chocolate bar when the accident occurred. She wants to go home at any cost, if only to find out whether her father survived the accident. In Allie, Shusterman gives the reader a genuine heroine: brave, smart, and determined. But Allie and Nick aren't interested in sticking around the forest for eternity, and they set off almost immediately. And the last thing they should try to do is leave their forest and go home. There's a horrible monster called the McGill out there that they will definitely want to avoid. If a dead person stands on a spot in the living world too long, he or she will sink to the center of the earth. Lief tells Allie and Nick all about this after-life world. The first person they meet is a boy they call Lief- he's been in Everlost so long that he's forgotten his real name- who shows them the ropes. After a car accident kills them both, teenagers Allie and Nick wake up in Everlost, the land for kids who don't quite "get to where they're going" when they die. What a wonderful way to end the year! With winter break came the time to read two fantastic books by Neal Shusterman, Everlost and Everwild, and I didn't even mind that they're parts of a trilogy.Įverlost is Book One of The Skinjacker Trilogy.
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