{"id":1191,"date":"2014-10-14T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T00:47:52","slug":"everlost-teen-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2014\/everlost-teen-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Everlost — teen review"},"content":{"rendered":"

–review by Kara, teen reviewer<\/p>\n

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Everlost<\/em> by Neal Shusterman<\/h2>\n

\"five-stars\"<\/p>\n

This book is about children in limbo. Our two main characters, Allie and Nick, are involved in the same accident, one that led to their deaths. This is their story about trying to \u201csurvive\u201d in a world that is stuck in between life and death (but still heavily leans toward death).<\/p>\n

It was pretty good, but there wasn\u2019t anything that really stuck out to me until the end. During the entire time I was reading it, I didn\u2019t feel that engaged and felt no urgency to keep on reading. It wasn\u2019t that any of the characters were particularly annoying or aggravating, I just couldn\u2019t really relate to any of them or find a fondness for them (there was nothing remarkably good or bad about them), and so found myself just going with the plot and series of events and not rooting for anyone to do anything.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s definitely a pretty interesting concept. In this purgatory, (or as its called by the Afterlights, Everlost) things that have been destroyed but loved dearly, such as the Twin Towers, live on. But here\u2019s the catch, the Afterlights can\u2019t survive on land that is living (the dead have their own territories) because if they stand still for too long, they sink to the center of the earth. Everything dead is more solid to them than anything living. So they get to watch life, but can\u2019t participate (which is actually kind of depressing for them). Oh here\u2019s another thing, everyone in Everlost is a child. So all of the good guys and bad guys are just kids, which prompts new questions about the capabilities of children.<\/p>\n

Overall I recommend it to anyone who wants a book that makes you think about what would happen if kids ran the show but not to anyone who wants a lazy read (one you read slowly because you don\u2019t feel inclined to finish it that quickly). 5 stars. –Kara, teen reviewer<\/p>\n

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Find the book in our library: \u00a0Everlost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

–review by Kara, teen reviewer Everlost by Neal Shusterman This book is about children in limbo. Our two main characters, Allie and Nick, are involved in the same accident, one that led to their deaths. This is their story about trying to \u201csurvive\u201d in a world that is stuck in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teen-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2014\/10\/everlost.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-jd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3101,"url":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2016\/extraordinary-means-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":1191,"position":0},"title":"Extraordinary Means – teen review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"November 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Review by Kara Eng, grade 12 Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider Summary:\u00a0Two teenagers with a deadly disease fall in love on the brink of a cure.Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. 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