A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
An extraordinary novel of love, loss and hope.
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. Bestselling novelist Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves a heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.
Reviews
This amazing, tense and exciting book written by Patrick Ness is very moving. It had been so sad at the end where Conor's mum died. This book is sometimes a bit confusing; the monster is so helpful, violent, kind and bad all at the same time. It is so tense and unbelievably attractive. I truly cannot decide whether the monster is good or bad (probably good). I would like to recommend it to others aged 10-13 years old deal to some violent and scary bits. I really enjoyed reading this book. -Coach Gloriana Waterfall
Coach Gloriana Waterfall 23.08.2022
This was a fiction based book and was all about the recurring nightmare of a boy coming to life. This book interested me as it was about a boy fighting to cope with his mother's diagnosed cancer.
Anonymous 26.07.2022
A desperate story of a boy who has all his hopes on a tree
Anonymous 10.03.2018
This is a story I would recommend to children ages 12 and above. It's about a boy called Conor whose mum is very ill (I am guessing she has cancer) she had lost her hair, she had been really tired lately, and she was forever falling asleep. One day her health is so bad she has to go to the hospital and Conor has to stay with his Grandma, he doesn't really like her. Conor always KNEW his mum was going to die, she was just to ill, but he tried to stop thinking that, he wanted to think that she was going to be alright. Everyday at exactly 12:07 ~ this monster off some sort comes (he's actually a yew tree) this 'tree' tells Conor 3 stories and the fourth story he says to Conor that he must say himself. The truth. Off what's going to happen. What is happening. In the end he says the truth but unfortunately his mum goes.
Anonymous 22.11.2016
