The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

Who Wants To Live Forever? (Review: The Legacy, Gemma Malley)

The Legacy Gemma Malley Bloomsbury 2010
When a Pincent Pharma lorry is ambushed by the Underground, its contents come as a huge surprise - not drugs, but corpses in a horrible state. It appears Longevity isn't working and the drugs promising eternal youth are failing to live up to their promises. …
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Shady Guest Posting

This fine Monday morning, I have a guest review up on the fantastic Rhiana Reads. I wouldn't normally link to a guest post (it seems awfully self promotional) but Rhiana Reads is one of my favourite blogs and I wanted to use this excuse to make sure that you all go and check it out.  


Also, the …
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Possibly The Best Title Ever

I have been excited about Hold Me Closer, Necromancer for...well...ages.  I honestly think it is the best book title that I have ever heard.  Love it.  And now there's an equally cool trailer:




Awesome, right? I love the simplicity of it. And that guy has a particularly hot voice. Which helps.
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IMM (#18)

In My Mailbox is a meme created and hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren with inspiration from Alea at Pop Culture Junkie. All book titles link to further info at Goodreads.


For review
Immortal Remains
Rook Hastings
Harper Collins 2010
This follow up to the hugely creepy Nearly Departed (review here…
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Quick Q & A with Rook Hastings

I was fortunate enough to receive a review copy of Rook Hasting's new book Immortal Remains recently - you can find my review here.  Not to mince my words, it scared my freaking socks off.  However, scares are not all that Rook has to offer - I found the first book in her Weirdsville series, Ne…
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If You Go Down To The Woods Today.... (Review: Immortal Remains by Rook Hastings)

Immortal Remains
Rook Hastings
Harper Collins 2010


Four freak accidents. Four mysterious deaths. Four signs of trouble. Welcome back to Weirdsville! Four girls from posh school Riverbank have been killed in seemingly random but freakish ways and it's not long before Bethan and co. are lured into i…
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Space Boy (Review: I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore)

I Am Number Four Pittacus Lore Penguin 2010
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. S…
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Le Freak C'est Chic (Review: Blood Feud by A. Harvey)

Blood Feud Alyxandra Harvey Bloomsbury 2010
Blood Feud is the second instalment of The Drake Chronicles. I don't think that there are spoilers here, but if you haven't read book one (My Love Lies Bleeding/Hearts At Stake) then better to be safe than sorry.
The action and romance continue as…
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IMM (#17)

In My Mailbox is a meme created and hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren with inspiration from Alea at Pop Culture Junkie. All book titles link to further info at Goodreads.


For review
The Legacy
Gemma Malley
Bloomsbury 2010
I absolutely love the first two books in this series and was delighted to r…
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Ruby Tuesday (Review: Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen)

Lock and Key Sarah Dessen Puffin 2008
Ruby, where is your mother?" Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she's been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return. That's how she comes to live with Cora, the sister s…
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Eternal Flame? (Review: The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller)

The Eternal Ones Kirsten Miller Razorbill 2010
Haven Moore has always known she's different: there are the talents that can't be explained; the knowledge of places she's never been; and then there are the visions that overwhelm her - terrifying visions of a life that ended tragically two d…
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IMM (#15)

In My Mailbox is a meme created and hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren with inspiration from Alea at Pop Culture Junkie. All book titles link to further info at Goodreads.


For review
I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore
Penguin 2010
"We were nine.  Three are dead.  I am number four"... Who wou…
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