![]() Fleeting third-person chapters give windows into the lives of other characters they encounter, underscoring how even a tiny action can change the course of someone else’s life. Present-tense chapters, short and time-stamped, primarily feature the protagonists’ distinctive first-person narrations. Mateo and Rufus set out to seize the day together in their final hours, during which their deepening friendship blossoms into something more. The two meet through Last Friend, an app that connects lonely Deckers (one of many ways in which Death-Cast influences social media). Rufus needs company after a violent act puts cops on his tail and lands his friends in jail Mateo wants someone to push him past his comfort zone after a lifetime of playing it safe. The End Day call comes for two teenagers living in New York City: Puerto Rican Mateo and bisexual Cuban-American foster kid Rufus. In an alternate present, a company named Death-Cast calls Deckers-people who will die within the coming day-to inform them of their impending deaths, though not how they will happen. What would you do with one day left to live? The wish-fulfilling title and sun-washed, catalog-beautiful teens on the cover will be enticing for girls looking for a diversion. Besides the mostly off-stage issue of a parent’s severe illness there’s not much here to challenge most readers-driving, beer-drinking, divorce, a moment of surprise at the mothers smoking medicinal pot together. In the background the two mothers renew their friendship each year, and Lauren, Belly’s mother, provides support for her friend-if not, unfortunately, for the children-in Susannah’s losing battle with breast cancer. Belly’s dawning awareness of her sexuality and that of the boys is a strong theme, as is the sense of summer as a separate and reflective time and place: Readers get glimpses of kisses on the beach, her best friend’s flirtations during one summer’s visit, a first date. Han’s leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly.īelly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother’s best friend’s two sons. A fascinating read penned by an expert hand. Everlost is turning into Everwild, right before readers’ eyes. Each character grows, developing new aspects of their personality and finding out just how far they’ll go to achieve their aims, whether anyone else likes it or not. In this sequel to Everlost (2006), Shusterman has once again created a world that is beautiful and imaginative yet increasingly eerie and grim. ![]() Allie can move back to the real world by hijacking the body of a living being, but she can’t move on into the light, even if she wanted to. ![]() Nick, the Chocolate Ogre, has already discovered how to send these lost souls into the light and is determined to fight Mary before he turns completely into a chocolate statue. Mary seeks to trap children there forever as her loyal-but unwitting-followers. It’s a world between, where lost souls search for safety, for permanence or just a feeling of belonging (not unlike real life). Everlost is where children go when they die, if they miss their chance to go into the light or are just not ready to transition into the hereafter.
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