Everlost by Neal Shusterman

My new review is on a book that I just finished reading today. It's called Everlost, by Neal Shusterman:

Everlost is about two fourteen-year-old strangers, who meet by the oddest conditions. Allie and Nick are total strangers, until a car accident. Allie was with her dad, Nick with his family on their way to a wedding. The two cars collided, and sent Nick and Allie flying through the windshields and into the forest by the road. They wake up to see another boy, about eleven, who explained to them where they were and how they got there. Allie and Nick decided to call the boy Leif. Leif told them that they had died in the car accident, but when their souls were traveling down a tunnel to wherever souls of the dead end up, they got off trail and were stuck in a place called Everlost. Everlost is a place where all the lost souls of children end up. There are only children, because the adults all always "get where they're going," in other words, to the end of the tunnel. Everlost is about Leif, Allie, and Nick's journey around Everlost. They meet other kids like them, and find that the lost souls of children are called Afterlights. They also learn of a monster called the McGill, a monster that no one's seen that survived. They also learn of an Afterlight called the Haunter, who got his name from being the only one known to be able to interfere with the living world. The Haunter is said to be able to bring things from the living world into Everlost. When Leif and Nick are captured by the Haunter, Allie tries to rescue them. But, when she finally gets to the place her friends are, she finds that the place has been raided by the McGill, and the McGill took all the Afterlights that the Haunter had captured. Now, she has to go and fight the only monster known to Everlost to save Leif and Nick. I'd give this book 3 1/2 stars for good writing, story, and characters!

Here's a link for Everlost: http://www.amazon.com/Everlost-Neal-Shusterman/dp/0689872372