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 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.

Reviewed by Mercy on

4 of 5 stars

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English:
This book broke me, I knew that it was going to happen, I knew how it would end but still, I wasn't prepared. I'm not giving it 5 stars rating because it got a bit boring in the middle but I loved it, Ness is great at describing characters and although the story is sad, it is told in a very beautiful way.

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Español:
Este libro me destrozó, sabía que iba a suceder, sabía cómo iba a terminar pero aún así, no estaba preparada para ello. No le doy una puntuación perfecta porque hay una parte en el medio donde la historia es más lenta y aburrida pero me ha encantado, Ness es muy bueno para describir personajes y aunque la historia es triste, está contada de una forma muy bella.

Por cierto, el audiolibro es genial, no me gustan los audiolibros en español porque he tratado con algunos y los narradores son muy aburridos pero el que narra éste es muy bueno y me pude meter de lleno en la historia desde el principio.

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