They meet each other as well as a “weird” boy that Allie names Lief, as he has forgotten his own name. Nick and Allie both awaken in Everlost after their ninth month of sleep. People, the unmentioned fifth person is likely his mother. Since Nick sits without a seat belt in a car meant for four His father, brother, and sisterĪre all mentioned.

This is one of the few glimpses we have of Nick’s family. They crash intoĮach other and end up breaking through the walls of the tunnel and ending up in Everlost. The ensuing accident sends Nick and Allie down the tunnel into the light. Nick’s father failed to avoid this and the impact with it caused him to lose control of the car. The crash was caused by a sharp piece of steel that had been dropped by a scrap metal truck. Nick are sent into the light because of a car crash. In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.Ĭhapter Overviews Chapter 1 – On The Way to the Light… Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the 'Criminal Art' of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost. When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he's found a home, but Allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands 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 all the things and places that no longer exist.

but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident. 2.1 Chapter 1 – On The Way to the Light….

Everlost by neal shusterman