The Mountains of Instead

Tomorrow, When The War Began John Marsden Quercus 2011
When Ellie and her group of friends head off into the bush for a week of camping, the most exciting thing on the horizon is the fact that this is the first time they’ve been away, boys and girls, unsupervised. They head directly to a remote are…

The Cursed Ones Nancy Holder and Debbie Vigue Simon Pulse 2010
In Jenn's world things are much like they are they are in Sookie Stackhouse's – but less sexy. Yep, vampires have come out of the coffin, so to speak, and have been wreaking havoc on the world ever since. Jenn can remember when …

Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment on Jeri Smith-Ready's guest post on the Shift blog tour. All comments were entered into a draw to win copies of the book and the winners are...drumroll....
Signed copy of Shift:  Safari Poet Unsigned copy of Shift:  Teril
Congratulations!  Emails will…

It’s Not Summer Without You Jenny Han Razorbill 2011
It's Not Summer Without You is the follow up to The Summer I Turned Pretty - this review contains spoilers for book one.
A year has passed since the summer Belly turned pretty and much has changed. This year she finds herself at local pool parti…

Today, I am exceedingly excited to welcome Patrick Ness to The Mountains of Instead as part of a blog tour organised by Walker Books. As regular readers will know, I'm a huge fan of his YA trilogy Chaos Walking and was keen to read his latest book, A Monster Calls. I can confirm that it is ex…