A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness

5 had me crying like a baby stars!!

It’s not very often that a book has me crying at the end.  This book was completely unexpected. I knew it was going to be good because I haven’t seen a bad review about it. However I didn’t read the blurb before I started and was caught by surprise about the plot. A Monster Calls is a fast paced read; I think it could be read in two hours or less. It follows a young man and the monster that comes to him every night. I’m not sure what I can tell you about this book that won’t be a spoiler.  It’s such a short book that anything I say may be a spoiler.

The plot was amazing, the writing was fantastic, the imagination… it was just good overall!!

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book blurb…

Paperback, Un-illustrated, 237 pages

Published May 7th 2015 by Walker Books (first published 2011)

Original Title A Monster Calls

ISBN 1406361801 (ISBN13: 9781406361803)

Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don’t quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there’s a visitor at his window. It’s ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.

Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.