The Mountains of Instead

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish and is jolly good fun even though I regularly forget to take part. This week, it being Thanksgiving in America it's all about things you are thankful for. I'm not American, but it doesn't do anyone any harm to reflect. So, in no par…

Unravelling Elizabeth Norris Harper Collins 2012
Janelle is a pretty ordinary girl.She perhaps has more than usual on her plate what with her bi-polar mother, hardworking FBI father and a younger brother who she has pretty much raised but she’s doing OK.As her summer draws to an end, she walks home fr…

More Than This Patrick Ness Walker 2013
There is a boy and he is drowning.The sea batters him unforgivingly against unrelenting, insurmountable rocks, which cut his skin and ultimately snap his spinal column.He dies, his final thought a plea for what he knows not.Then, he wakes up.He’s dead, of this i…

Evie's shattered ribs prompt her to finally tell her adoptive parents the secrets that she carries from her early life, but as the physical scars heal and all she is left with is bone fragment in a jar, she realises that her journey is far from over.  Her bone fragment is carefully whittled int…