The Mountains of Instead

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

Everybody's Got The Fever (Review: Fever by L. DeStefano)

Fever Lauren DeStefano Harper Collins 2012
Rhine is free.  Having escaped the candy-cane prison of her husband and sister wives she is back in the world with the oh-so-trusting Gabriel right by her side.  Yet Rhine had become used to her prison of softness and holograms and Gabriel cannot remember any…

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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