She wants people to stay and he thinks they should have the choice. Then he confronts Mary about her telling people not to keep them and they argue. So Nick goes around and gives everyone coins. He gives one to Leif who says it's hot before disappearing. Nick helps Mary load the souls onto the ship but finds it odd that she has him hold the coins. Together, they decide to linger in Everlost and Mikey wants to do good deeds for all the bad ones he did as The McGill.

Then Mikey grabs her and helps her up because he respects her. They get into a crash after the jogging girl fights back and Allie is thrown from the vehicle and into the water where she starts to sink. Allie skinjacks a jogger and tries to drive a car but can't manage it. The McGill, now known as Mikey, grabs an Everlost horse and starts to ride for Allie. Allie and Nick part ways amicably, Nick going with Mary who is taking the 1,000 lost souls and Allie to head to her house. The kids he had captured try to push him into the earth. Facing his own self in a picture Mary keeps makes his altered image change back into the 14 year old boy he was. Mary reveal that The McGill is actually her brother who had sunk to the bottom of the earth and clawed his way out. It is actually Nick who has convinced Mary to help him fight The McGill. A giant plane lands and he believes it is the Gods or angels ready to grant him a living body. The McGill brings all 1,000 of his chimed souls to shore and shouts for his reward.

She believes the gang of kids who defeated him once will do it again but it becomes apparent that they are no longer there. He sends a recently chimed Allie out into the piers but little does he know that it was actually Allie who found a typewriter and types up the fortune in the fortune cookie to bring him here. Goodreads Rating: 3.T he McGill goes to the two piers in Atlantic where he was once defeated, sure that he is about to reap the reward of becoming living again after fulfilling his fortune cookie. In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between. 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. 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. 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. 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. but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Goodreads Summary: Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident.

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