The Mountains of Instead

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

Firestarter (Review: Firelight by Sophie Jordan)

Firelight Sophie Jordan OUP 2011
Having swithered over Sophie Jordan's Firelight for some time now, I was afforded the opportunity to read and review it prior to it's UK release this month and it is a rare beast in the paranormal genre in that it has a premise that I've not actually seen b…

A rose, by any other name... (Review: Bad Blood by Rhiannon Lassiter)

Bad Blood
Rhiannon Lassiter
OUP 2007


An an abandoned house in the Lake District, a cupboard door opens into a playroom. Buried in dust is a collection of children's books in which the names of characters have been savagely crossed out. Here three children played a make believe game, sacrificing th…