Main Themes and Messages

The Lost King incurs a sense of alienation in the main character Peter King (See Main Character Description) but his relationship grows with the three other main characters throughout the course of the story. It is a classic view of the idea that a number of people, if put through an inordinate amount of hardship together, will grow an amazing relationship which runs deeper than any normal friendship.
Another message that the author sends is that no matter how unappealing someone's personality may seem, there is more to everyone than meets the eye. This is shown through Jye Sullivan, a seemingly irritating and incessant personality. Towards the end of the story, however, Jye or 'Sully' as he is most well known, turns out to have a harder life than he originally lets on, and his rather abrasive personality is his way of dealing with this.
Yet another of the messages which Scot Gardner sends is that there is always hope in whatever amount of pain and cruelty you have been through this is shown when the four main characters stand up to impossible odds and do not let their sense of desolation ruin everything which they once were.
Scot Gardner is an amazing writer in that he can send these messages without having to say them bluntly. It is a very short book but it contains material of a fantastic quality.