Choice Book Report Quarter 3

The main character in Neal Shusterman’s Everwild is Allie Johnson. Everwild, the second book in the Skinjacker trilogy, continues the story after Allie and Nick’s deaths in a car accident. The unfortunate two then crossed into Everlost, a world between life and death.

Allie is headstrong and self willed. She won’t let anything stop her when she decides to find her family and figure out if her dad survived the accident. Allie is skeptical. She doesn’t trust anybody right away, including Mary Hightower, a self appointed leader. Most of the time (and in that case) she is right not to trust them. Mary turns out to be slightly insane. She has kids working with her who kill living children to bring them to Everlost because she believes blindly that Everlost is better. But at the same time Mary makes it seem like what she is doing is right. Allie isn’t like that at all. She doesn’t care if people think what she’s doing is right. Allie is on Nick’s side. Nick, the “Chocolate Ogre”, works to free the children of Everlost. Allie doesn’t care that Mary hates her for this.

Allie is persistent and clever. When she finds her family she has to make several tries to get to talk to her mother. She strategically skinjacks a young, curious boy, gets “lost”, and questions her mother about the accident. She finds her father alive and some shocking news about her own fate in the accident.

I thought this was a pretty good book. I would recommend this book to anyone who read and liked Everlost. You might like this series if you like fantasy. There are lots of fantasy parts, such as skinjacking. You will like this book if you like fiction of long books, since this book is 424 pages. This book was fast paced, so you will like it if you like action or adventure. You might like it if you enjoy murder mysteries or mysteries. This book was sort of a mystery because Allie is trying to find her family and find out what happened to them.

I would not recommend reading this book if you have not read Everlost. At the beginning it would be hard to follow. The author assumes you have read Everlost. You should also not read this book if you dislike fantasy. You would not like this book if you dislike long books. You would dislike this book if you do not like mysteries or murder mysteries. You would dislike Everwild if you do not like action or adventure.

I think most people would enjoy something about this book. 

I liked it because I like longer books. I also like fast paced books. I liked it because it was unrealistic. I liked the fantasy part of it. I thought the characters were interesting. I liked Allie and Nick because they are determined. They stay true to what they believe in no matter what Mary and her followers say. I like the adventure and action type of books. This book is adventure because Allie is trying to find her family and Nick is trying to rescue Afterlights. 

The part of this book that I did not like was the character Milos. I did not like Milos because he pretends to be Allie’s friend. Then he joins Mary in Chicago.

I also did not like Mikey, Mary’s brother, very much. Mikey used to be a monster until Allie turned him back. Mikey is traveling with Milos and Allie and he gets really jealous of Milos. He changes himself back into a monster. Later he changes back again.

The other character I disliked was Jill. Jill works for Mary. She used to be Milos’s friend, but she left him. She is one of the Afterlights who kills living children to bring them to Everlost.

I liked most parts of this book and I think most people would enjoy it.