The Lost Rainforest is a novel series written by Eliot Schrefer.
For as long as anyone can remember the magical rainforest of Caldera has been divided by the veil. On one side are the daywalkers, creatures who walk the rainforest by day, and nightwalkers, creatures who walk the rainforest by night. Any animal caught walking on the wrong side of the veil faces exile, or worse. This is how it has always been until the eclipse. Deep in the heart of Caldera an ancient evil has reawakened and it's only a matter of time before it breaks the bonds of it's magical prison. The fate of Caldera rests with a group of young shadowwalkers, those who can cross the veil, together they must defeat this evil and save their rainforest home before it's too late.
Books in this series:
1. Mez's Magic (January 2018)
This novel series provides examples of:
- Forced Sleep: Nightwalkers are subject to this by day and daywalkers are subject to it by night and it's mentioned that it's seemingly impossible to wake them from it during their respective sleeping hours. Only the ants and the eclipse-born are immune to it.
- Mass Super-Empowering Event: the most recent solar eclipse, any animal born at the moment it occurred has the ability to walk by both day and night along with a magical power of some kind.
- Artistic License – Biology: Mez and family are referred to as Panthers, despite panthers actually being leopards or jaguars with excess melanin. Mez herself is also somehow calico, despite not being a domestic cat.
