The Mountains of Instead

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

At The Break of Day (Review: Legend by Marie Lu)

Legend Marie Lu Puffin 2012
June is a pretty smart cookie.  Passing her government’s aptitude tests with a perfect score, she’s already part way through her university training at just fifteen. Keen to start contributing to her society’s ongoing war effort, she’s itching to join her older brother, Met…
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My Favourite Things: The Hunger Games as through the lens of CJ Skuse.

Hello and welcome to the 75th Hung... I mean, the 2nd of new feature, My Favourite Things.  I am delighted to welcome CJ Skuse, author of the fabulous Pretty Bad Things and Rockoholic, who has joined us here to discuss (very timeously) her favourite YA novel of recent times. 

Everybody LOVES The Hun…
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A few of Splendibird's Favourite Things

Welcome to a series of posts based on many people's favourite things.I'm starting the ball rolling by writing a post myself but in subsequent weeks I have a variety of awesome guest posts from a variety of readers, authors and others who all want to share their favourite things with you.  T…
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Away With The Fae (Review: Stolen Away by Alyxandra Harvey)

Stolen Away Alyxandra Harvey Bloomsbury 2011
Eloise Hart keeps herself to herself.Content to spend her time with best friends Jo and Devin, hang out with her Rockabilly mother and help out at the local tattoo parlour (while avoiding the local mean girls) she’s used to not drawing too much attention he…
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YOUR Favourite Things

About a week ago, I sent an email to a few fellow bloggers and blogging friends regarding a new feature I want to start running on The Mountains of Instead.  It's garnered such a great response that I've decided to spread the net for contributors wider - to all of you!  Because you're a…
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If he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? (Review: Wither by Lauren DeStefano)

Wither Lauren DeStefano Harper Collins 2011
Rhine has always lived with the knowledge that she will not live past the age of 20 and her brother will die at 25. In a world cured of disease, some strange anomaly has led to men and women contracting a strange virus that kills by the clock. Rhine’s world …
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