This young adult fantasy series is set in a limbo-like world between life and death called Everlost, where children who die and get lost on the way to wherever they are going become trapped — and follows two young people navigating the strange society that has developed there and the dangerous forces seeking to control it. The series is inventive and philosophically adventurous, using its afterlife premise to explore themes of identity, memory, and what it means to move on.
Nick and Allie die in a car accident and wake up in Everlost—a world between life and death where children who don't make it to the light are stranded—and must navigate the dangers of this in-between world while seeking a way to complete their journey. A creatively imagined afterlife adventure with a darkly comic sensibility and real emotional depth. The first book in the Skinjacker trilogy.
Six months after the events of Everlost, the world of the dead continues to shift as new factions form, Allie explores her skinjacking abilities, and the afterlife's equilibrium is threatened by characters with dangerous ambitions. A rich and inventive middle volume that deepens the mythology while raising the moral complexity.
The Skinjacker trilogy concludes with an all-out conflict for the fate of Everlost and the living world alike, bringing all threads to a satisfying and emotionally costly resolution. Shusterman's willingness to pay real narrative costs is on full display in this finale.