The Mountains of Instead

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

Dead In The Water (Review: Cruel Summer by James Dawson)

Shadows Hold Their Breath (Review: The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo

The Gathering Dark/Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo Indigo 2012

Alina Starkov has never been anything special.An orphan among many orphans, and a fairly unattractive one at that, the only thing she’s ever really had going for her is her friendship with Mal, a fellow orphan who is the light to Alina’s dar…
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