Book Review: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Title: A Monster Calls
Author: Patrick Ness
Illustrator: Jim Kay
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction
Pages: 206
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Year Published: 2011
Format: Hardcover (Library Copy)
First Line: "The monster showed up just after midnight."

"The monster showed up 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 nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...

This monster, though, is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.

It wants the truth."

My Rating: 4.5/5

This book took me totally off guard. I'm a fairly emotional person and it doesn't take much to make me cry. But this book broke parts of me. Seeing the storyline and the illustrations and the way emotions can just take us over broke me. This story is so important for everyone, to better understand grief is to better understand ourselves. I think it's important to realize that everyone's emotions break them apart sometimes and sometimes they make us do things that even we don't understand. I can't wait to read more works by the author.

Thanks for reading,
Sidny