read by Nick Podehl
Summary (from Goodreads.com)
Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he's found a home. But Allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the "Criminal Art" of haunting and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost.
Personal Thoughts
This is a very interesting presentation of a purgatory-type existence. I didn't love the book at first but it started drawing me in. After awhile, I just had to know what the McGill was and why he was so gross and nasty. I have to say that part of the draw was the wonderful reading that Nick Podehl did. He even managed to make the voices different and really draw the characters out of the text. I ended up listening to five minutes at a time because I couldn't "put it down." I'm looking forward to the sequel, Everwild, to see what happens to Nick and Allie and how they work to free souls from Everlost.
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