A Monster Calls
Author: Patrick Ness
Genre: Magical Realism
Original publication date: May 2011
Book description: 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.
Thoughts:
Hard to describe.
It is a touching story as you can imagine either from the idea of the movie, from the description or from other book-related media Booktube, Bookstagram, Book related blogs etc.
This was still very different. Conor was facing issues mainly because due to his mother's illness he was closing himself off, he wanted people to treat him as normal, but he got a weird reaction from his classmates, from the teachers and even from himself.
There is very little that can be told and not spoiling things. Not sure what can be shared and what needs to be kept quiet about.
There are details you need to find out for yourself in the story as we get to know Conor.
The monster is never a scary aspect of the story because Connor is very sure its a dream initially and even when he wants to believe its real he still has something he fears even more.
His real fear was not the one I had anticipated. Usually, as you start to read anything like this where you are already in the middle of the whole thing, you are not sure what's going on with his friends, the bullies of school, the rest of his family other than his mother.... All come in small details, you don't know much at first. It did not annoy me, maybe it was because the book itself, well you get sucked into it and it also felt so short, so I was able to read it in a single day.
I had to read book as part of the Draw TBR Game I started this month.
Genre: Magical Realism
Original publication date: May 2011
Book description: 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.
Thoughts:
Hard to describe.
It is a touching story as you can imagine either from the idea of the movie, from the description or from other book-related media Booktube, Bookstagram, Book related blogs etc.
This was still very different. Conor was facing issues mainly because due to his mother's illness he was closing himself off, he wanted people to treat him as normal, but he got a weird reaction from his classmates, from the teachers and even from himself.
There is very little that can be told and not spoiling things. Not sure what can be shared and what needs to be kept quiet about.
There are details you need to find out for yourself in the story as we get to know Conor.
The monster is never a scary aspect of the story because Connor is very sure its a dream initially and even when he wants to believe its real he still has something he fears even more.
His real fear was not the one I had anticipated. Usually, as you start to read anything like this where you are already in the middle of the whole thing, you are not sure what's going on with his friends, the bullies of school, the rest of his family other than his mother.... All come in small details, you don't know much at first. It did not annoy me, maybe it was because the book itself, well you get sucked into it and it also felt so short, so I was able to read it in a single day.
I had to read book as part of the Draw TBR Game I started this month.
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