This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, "A Monster Calls" is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults. This book is jacketed.
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→ DISLIKED: Honest to goodness, I did feel bad for Conor, being only a teenager and feeling invisible with a terminally ill mother. I did get a bit emotional at parts, but I just... didn't have a strong reaction to it like I do with other books.
→ LIKED: I found the dialogue between Conor and the 'monster' comical at most times, which saved me from putting down the book a lot. I did like their interactions, and the monster's stories, which did have major twists.
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