Everfound



A novel by Neal Shusterman, and the sequel to Everwild.

The final novel of The Skinjacker Trilogy.

As Mary Hightower slumbers in a glass coffin, waiting to be reborn back into Everlost, her allies and henchmen begin to carry out her terrible mission. Mary's army is joined by a newcomer: Jix, a spy for the Mayan King of Everlost. A furjacker who skinjacks great cats, Jix has his own agenda.

Meanwhile, Mikey McGill desperately tries to rescue Allie the Outcast. At his side is Nick the "Chocolate Ogre," who has become pure chocolate and hardly remembers himself at all. Mikey encounters a creature that scares even the mighty McGill: a scar wraith, whose touch can extinguish an Afterlight forever.

It becomes clear that the outcome will determine not just the fate of Everlost, but the fate of the living world as well.

Critically acclaimed author Neal Shusterman brings to a close a trilogy that Kirkus Reviews called "beautiful and imaginative" with this stunning final volume.

Has a Character Sheet.


 * Achievements in Ignorance: An odd variation combined with Reality Warper. The ruler of the City of Souls is sometimes known as The Unremembering King due to his ability to "unremember things". How this works is if the king says he does not remember something, then it ceases to exist. For example, he doesn't remember that Afterlights with red hair aren't parrots, so they sprout red parrot wings. He doesn't remember not being a powerful Mayan king, so he becomes one.
 * Afraid of Blood: The reason
 * And the Adventure Continues...:
 * Animal Motifs/Transformation Conventions: As a furjacker, Jix prefers to possess animals and his body has shifted in a more cat-like manner, developing spots on his body and grown fangs, his ears shifted higher, and his skin has the feel of fur.
 * Anyone Can Die: Whether they're sent to the center of the earth--which is close enough to "dying" for an Afterlight--or get extinguished--"absolute death."
 * And I Must Scream: Inverted: The worse fate an Afterlight can experience is
 * Also inverted in that becoming trapped in the center of the earth for all eternity is maybe the second or third best thing to happen to an Afterlight (the first being "going into the light"), due to Afterlights becoming "one with themselves", which gives them the infinite patience needed to wait until the end of the world.
 * The Atoner: After because the indirect cause of a little girl's death, Jix makes it his responsibility to look after the girl and apologize her to after she wakes up from her nine-month-hibernation.
 * Back for the Finale/The Bus Came Back:
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Jix and Jill.
 * Beta Couple: Jix and Jill to Mikey and Allie.
 * Bittersweet Ending/Earn Your Happy Ending:
 * Book Ends:
 * Break the Haughty:
 * Nick, Allie, and Jill all develop a more humbleness following their "transformations"--Nick, Allie having gotten stuck furjacking a coyote for a while, and Jill
 * Continuity Nod: Lacey appears to be the girl who fell over her laces at the end of Everlost.
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Allie knows that in spite of how hot-headed Milos can get when his buttons are pushed or how evil his actions are, he won't hurt a girl or break his word. Of course, that doesn't stop Milos from using Exact Words loopholes.
 * Moose refuses to and balls his eyes out after Milos does it himself.
 * Fate Worse Than Death:
 * Though Afterlights are already dead, a single touch from a scar wraith can extinguish them forever, rendering them unable to pass through the tunnel to the light and instead sealing them to an absolute death. It is for this reason that Mikey, of all people, is afraid when Nick and he are caught by one.
 * When Allie tells Jix that she plans to eventually skinjack into to get her life back, Jix warns her that once a skinjacker jumps into, they can never leave it until they die. He explains that a friend of his did the exact same thing, but
 * Over fifty Afterlights
 * Rotsie
 * Five-Man Band: Arguably--
 * The Hero: Allie
 * The Lancer: Mikey
 * The Smart Guy: Jill and Jix
 * The Big Guy: Clarence
 * The Chick: Nick
 * Green-Eyed Monster: When Nick mentions to Milos that Mary and he were in love, Milos convinces Nick that he is Mary's soulmate and that Nick is in love with Jackin' Jill instead. Nick later figures out that Milos was lying.
 * The Big Guy: Clarence
 * The Chick: Nick
 * Green-Eyed Monster: When Nick mentions to Milos that Mary and he were in love, Milos convinces Nick that he is Mary's soulmate and that Nick is in love with Jackin' Jill instead. Nick later figures out that Milos was lying.


 * High Heel Face Turn: Jill.
 * It Is Not Your Time:
 * Kiss Kiss Slap: When having to choose between Jix and returning to Milos and the gang, Jackin' Jill kisses Jix and then slaps him before deciding to stay.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: Follow his near dissolution into in Everwild,  can barely recall memories, making it easy for others to twist his mind.
 * Little Dead Riding Hood: The little girl that Jix accidentally causes her death wore a red dress.
 * Machine Worship: The Alamo kids and Wurlitzer.
 * Manipulative Bitch: Mary, all the more worse when she discovers
 * Meaningful Echo:
 * Meaningful Name: Jix names the little girl that he indirectly killed "Inez" after his own younger sister, who is alive in the human world.
 * Official Couple: Jix and Jill. Mikey and Allie.
 * Reverse Mole: Jix. Jill leaves Mary's group, but rejoins it at 's request to keep an eye on Mary.
 * Shout-Out:
 * Jackin' Jill calls Jix at one point, "Simba."
 * A singer named Rhoda Dakota and thirty of her fans got killed in one of the Texas incidents that Allie is investigating.
 * Several chapter names do this. Chocolate Reign and The Sum Of All Tears, indeed.