The Mountains of Instead

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

Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? (Review of Henry Franks by Peter Adam Salomon)

Henry Franks Peter Adam Salomon Flux 2012
Henry Franks is neither here nor there.  Sleep-walking through his present and unable to remember his past he is a haunted by non-memories, living in a limbo that seems unlikely to change.  Held together by 4000 stitches, he’s recovering from the accident that…
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It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Review: The Daykeeper's Grimoire by Christy Raedeke)

The Daykeepers' Grimoire
(Prophecy of Days, book 1)
Christy Raedeke
Flux 2010


The story of Caity Mac Fireland, a girl from San Francisco whose parents drag her to an isle off the coast of Scotland to manage some family property. Caity finds that a Mayan relic is concealed there, intentionally left …
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Sweet Baby James (Review: Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater)

Ballad
Maggie Stiefvater
Flux


In this mesmerizing sequel to Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception, music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for musicians. James' musical talent attracts Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and feeds on the …
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Dee-lightful (Review: Lament by M. Stiefvater)

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
Maggie Stiefvater
Flux 2009


“Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a prodigiously gifted musician. She's about to find out she's also a cloverhand - one who can see faeries. 


Unexpectedly, Deirdre finds herself infatuated with a mysterious boy named Luke…
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