A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd

A Monster Calls

by Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd

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...Read more

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3 of 5 stars

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This book is not bad, but yet not amazing. It's an okay read which unfortunately wouldn't stay with me forever. It was not outstanding, both the storyline and characters.

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