Neal really works well with the Lord of the Flies scenario. Kids living underground in the sewer system, developing a whole lifestyle network. I also have Downsiders by Shusterman sitting here too. I wonder what Neal's happy dance looks like. The book is the second book in the Skinjacker Trilogy, which takes place in Everlost, a limbo-like place between life and death. If I was an author and Orson read my book AND wrote something very po sitive about it I would have a happy dance to end all happy dances. Everwild is a 2010 fantasy novel by the young adult fiction author Neal Shusterman. Oh, and Everlost has an author blurb by, get this, Orson Scott Card! Are you kidding me? The man behind Ender's Game read this book and said, 'Marvelously inventive.and magically beautiful'. And I have a question: How do I review a book which gives spoilers to the first book, properly? I don't want to say 'it's good, but read the first book first'. And I am positively itching to read it.īut I've never read and reviewed a sequel for this blog.

yep, Simon & Schuster have copies in stock now, is the sequel to Everlost. So Everwild, which I think is available now *checking*. With Neal's books I always enjoy the cerebral fireworks that go on you always leave with way more questions that when you entered. Are there other kids? If there are, do they congregate? What traits have they kept? Do they start cities or write books? What would you do with sometimes hundreds of years just existing? Do you explore your world? What could you change? Okay, now you have some kids who ar e lost. Then, instead of just poking around the plot cul-de-sac of this one premise, Neal takes it so much farther. They are lost in a halfworld, between the living and wherever the dead go. Here you have two kids who collide in a car accident and who wake up basically dead, but not quite where they should have ended up. Everlost was adventurous and scary, exciting but also very thoughtful. Like Everlost, the first in The Skinjackers trilogy. I think Neal goes beyond the great premise and really works as a detective to unearth (mixed metaphors?) all of the answers the novel as question poses. One such title is Everwild by Neal Shusterman. So I'm thinking that most of my reading choices in the next month will be a little closer to my heart whatever moves me every few days to pick it up, regardless of publication date, or any feeling of 'if I write a teen blog, I really SHOULD be reading X and Y'. But all of it makes me a little worn out too. Which is great because it's exciting and whirlwind and many people are buying the COOLEST books for the kids in their lives. Christmas, though I love it dearly, puts me into a bit of a rut. Lately I've had a bit of blogger's writer's block (c'est possible?), and it's taken me like 5 days to read this 250 page novel. I've been doing more author interviews/guest blog spots than usualy, especially for my past Dystopian Teen Week, and I feel like I haven't written anything for the blog myself!

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