The Mountains of Instead

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

Favourite Things: Donna Bites her Lost Boys (er, sort of)...

Yeah, yeah, I know... you all thought I'd forgotton about this feature, yes? Well, no.  At least, only for a little time while I was snowed down with study and books and, y'know, life.  However, it's back and I'm back having extracted myself from academia for the summer and settled …
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If Only We Could Stop The Moon, and June (Review: Saving June by Hannah Harrington)

Saving June Hannah Harrington Mira Ink 2012
After June commits suicide, her sister Harper finds herself angry, confused, sad and conflicted.Unsure of how to manage her own sadness, never mind her mother’s debilitating grief or her father’s absence she pours her energy into fulfilling June’s one great …
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Brothers in Arms (Review: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare)

City of Lost Souls Cassandra Clare Walker 2012
City of Lost Souls is the fifth book in The Mortal Instruments series and this review contains spoilers for all five previous books. If you’ve not read them, don’t read this.
Life has been suddenly and irrevocably changed for Clary. Reeling from the disa…
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Still She Haunts Me, Phantomwise (review: Ghost Flower by Michelle Jaffe)

Ghost Flower Michelle Jaffe Atom 2012
Eve has had a hard life, moving from foster home to foster home to city street before finally finding herself serving coffee in Arizona. Desperate for a change in her fortune she finds herself drawn into the world of wealthy teens Bain and Bridgette Silverton, whe…
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Entwined In Red Rings (Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth)

Insurgent Veronica Roth Harper Collins 2012
Insurgent is the follow up to Veronica Roth’s debut smash, Divergent.  If you haven’t read the first book then stop reading this now as it does contains spoilers for the initial story.  You can find my review of Divergenthere.
Hurtling away from Dauntless, Ab…
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