Jacob Marley Apparel: Afterlights are forced to wear the clothes they died in, and they can't take them off at all.Flanderization: Played With: Minor details in an Afterlight's appearance grow overpowering as the souls forget what they looked like.Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Averted - when 'skinjacking' a human, random disjointed thoughts just bounce around.Though it's written in third person, the narrator alternates between the different subplots, with the main characters often being split up. Character Focus: There are usually several plots going on at the same time.Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Stuff like Roswell and the Trinity test site.Afterlights tend to be capable of going through the same repetitive motions for almost infinite periods of time, without really noticing the passage of time, so they can't become bored. And I Must Scream: For the most part averted.Alliterative Name: Megan Mary McGill and her younger brother Mikey McGill.It becomes clear that the outcome will determine not just the fate of Everlost, but the fate of the living world as well. And there were whispers of a terrible ogre made entirely of chocolate, who lured unsuspecting souls with that rich promising smell, only to cast them down a bottomless pit from which there was no return.Įverlost, the limbo land of dead children, is at war. There was a rumor of a beautiful sky witch, who soared across the heavens in a great silver balloon. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bandits of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with things and places that no longer exist.

but their souls don't exactly get to where they're supposed to either. Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident. A trilogy of the adventures of Nick and Allie through the mysterious world of Everlost by Neal Shusterman.

Everlost series