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Everlost, the limbo land of dead children, is at war. Nick the "Chocolate Ogre" wants to help the children of Everlost reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Mary Hightower, self-proclaimed queen of lost children and dangerous fanatic, is determined to keep Everlost's children trapped... read more
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Summary edit
If you are wanting a good Trilogy to read the Skin Jacker Trilogy.
Characters edit
- Allie (aka Allie the Outcast): Skinjacker and enemy of Mary Hightower. She is on her way home to see if her father is alive after the accident that killed her.
- Milos: Skinjacker that Allie and Mikey team up with to travel to Memphis, TN. He is Russian.
- Mary Hightower: Her real name is Megan Mary Mcgill. She now travels on the Hindenburgh catching as many afterlights as possible to join her army. She wants to save as many children as she can from reaching "the light".
- Nick: The Chocolate Ogre.
- Mikey McGill: Mary is his sister. He was once the monster known as the McGill. But now, he tries to maintain his humanity and keep the monster at bay with the help of Allie the Outcast.
- Danny Rozelli: The little boy who Allie skinjacks to get into her parents' home.
- Jill: A skinjacker who is also known as Jackin' Jill. She has unruly blond hair and is extremely tanned.
- Isaiah: Lead afterlight in Atlanta. May have been a slave.
- Pugsy Capone: Lead afterlight in Chicago.
- Moose: Skinjacker who is permanently in Football gear. Speech impediment due to the mouthguard he is wearing.
- Charlie: A 9 year old that conducts the train Nick uses to travel. He gets paid with chocolate to do so. Also called "choo choo charlie"
- Zin: The ripper. Died as a conferderate soldier, but she's a girl. She likes fighting with Johnnie-O.
- Johnnie-O: The used-to-be leader of the Altar Boys, Johnnie-O is Nick's bodyguard. He helps Nick get Afterlights. He likes teasing Zin around and fighting with her.
Quotes edit
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“For every 'Apollo Thirteen' there would be a 'Challenger'. For every miracle, a tragedy." p.g 53”
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“I've been waiting halfway to forever for someone to fight." p.g 248”
Zin -
“Everbody's got their own reasons for the things they do.All that matters is that your own reasons and mine carry the same flag." p.g 248”
Zin -
“We fight because it's the right thing to do,not because we want to." p.g 248”
Nick
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For every Apollo Thirteen, there would be a Challenger. For every miracle, a tragedy.
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The sixth Harry Potter book, which, for some reason, was the only one that never crossed into Everlost.
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“Do you remember when you were alive,” he asked, “and you suddenly forgot what you were about to say?” “Yes …“ Milos smiled. “Perhaps someone was surfing through you.”
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And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep… . For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.
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he marveled at how love could have so many hidden textures … for the feeling that once cushioned his heart now chafed at it.
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“because very soon, that’s exactly what you’ll be doing to Mary
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And any Afterlight that enters any Department of Motor Vehicles in the western world will discover that time doesn’t just stop, it ceases to exist entirely.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Everlost: A place in-between the living world and the light.
- Memphis: Where Allies parents moved 3 years ago
- Chicago
- Atlanta
- Graceland: A vortex. A place that exists in the living world and Everlost.
- Mississippi River
- Nashville
- Tennessee
- New Jersey: Where Allie the Outcast's family used to live.
- Virginia
First Sentence edit
There were rumors.
Table of Contents edit
Part One: A Vapor of Afterlights
Chapter 1 - Fresh Havoc
Chapter 2 - A View on High
Chapter 3 - Audience with an Ogre
Chapter 4 - The Outcast
Chapter 5 - Southern Discomfort
Chapter 6 - Shuttle Diplomacy
Chapter 7 - A Fistful of Forever
Part Two: Dancing with the Deadlies
Chapter 8 - Treasures of the Flesh
Chapter 9 - Good Stewards
Chapter 10 - Skinjacking for Fun and Profit
Chapter 11 - Surfing Tennessee
Chapter 12 - Of Monsters and Mullets
Chapter 13 - Bye Bye, Miss American Pie
Chapter 14 - Strange Winds
Chapter 15 - The Flight of Mikey McGill
Part Three: The Great White City
Chapter 16 - Mary's Master Plan
Chapter 17 - The Death Boss
Chapter 18 - The Interlight Incubator
Chapter 19 - Eminence Green
Part Four: Way of the Chocolate Warrior
Chapter 20 - The Great Train Robbery
Chapter 21 - Let 'Er Rip
Chapter 22 - Cram that Sucker
Chapter 23 - Severance and Blithe
Chapter 24 - It's a Dog's Life
Part Five: The Skinjacker Revelations
Chapter 25 - Lair of the Cat Woman
Chapter 26 - Home
Chapter 27 - Skinjacker's Lullaby
Chapter 28 - The Sleep of the Dead
Chapter 29 - Teed for Two
Chapter 30 - A Place on the Mantel
Part Six: City of the Dead
Chapter 31 - On the Banks of Eternity
Chapter 32 - The Low Approach
Chapter 33 - Suspicious Minds
Chapter 34 - Poolside Rendezvous
Chapter 35 - Allie-Allie-Oxen-Free
Chapter 36 - The Intolerable Nexus of Extremes
Chapter 37 - Sky Refugees
Chapter 38 - Last Train out of Memphis
Chapter 39 - At the Moment of Madness
Chapter 40 - The Changeling ond the Golem
Epilouge - Requim for the Living
Glossary edit
- Deadspot: A small spot of earth that has crossed over to everlost that everlights can stand on without sinking.
- Skinjacking: When an Afterlight who has the ability 'possesses' a living person.
- Afterlight: The term for these children who inhabit Everlost. They glow a light blue, which gave them this name.
- Everlost: The world in which children who are dead but yet not dead inhabit.
- Vapor: A large group of Afterlights.
- Cumulus: An even larger group of Afterlights.
- Greensoul: A child who has recently found themselves in Everlost.
- Interlight: An afterlight that hasent yet awoken from its 9 month sleep.
- Reap or reaping: When skinjackers go out to pourpously kill and steal children from the light, bringing them inter everlost.
- Ripping (ecto-ripping): The ability to take out things from the living world. This ability also lets you rip out things from Afterlights, as demonstrated by Zin when she ripped out Johnnie-O's brain. To get this power, when you're in the tunnel, you would have to reach out to the light, grab some and run away.
Errata edit
On page 224 there's a quotation mark error.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 3 in Skinjacker Trilogy. (standard series)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 10, 2009
ISBN: 1416958630
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 10, 2009
ISBN: 1416958630
Page Count: 432
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