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A monster calls by Patrick Ness - Review

A monster calls. By Patrick Ness






The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness, soon to be a major motion picture. 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 heart-breaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.



Me and my very good friend A little ray of sunshine decided that we were going to do a read along together with this book, so we set up the date that we was going to start and we set 1 chapter per day as we weren't sure about time due to other commitments. Well we started the book and that was it we were both hooked and we couldn’t stay to just one chapter per day it just didn’t happen we had to read more!

This book will have you in an emotional whirlwind, from feeling so so angry to the next feeling so sad (and in my case actually in tears)

The story I think is amazing it really shows you how losing someone can bring out a vast amount of emotions some of which you wouldn’t have thought of, from anger and sadness to acceptance and relief. It really is a hard read (Well it was for me) and I don’t mean because it wasn’t very good I mean because it will have you thinking of loved ones you’ve lost and have you feeling the exact same way as Conor it really is incredible! 

Ok, so without telling too much of the story in case you haven’t read it yourself, I want to touch upon the 3 tales within the story which I personally thought were great, I absolutely loved tale one!  Tale one explains how nothing is how it seems. When reading, listening or seeing something new always trying and look at the bigger picture being what you are seeing, listening to or reading could have a completely different meaning or outcome all together and I think tale one explains that brilliantly! 
So remember people less of the judging 😉 

Another tale touched on how in a situation or story there isn’t always a good or bad guy which I thought was a good thing to have, all of us I’m sure is guilty of picking up a book reading through and going ‘oh he/she must be the good one’ ‘ah he/she is defiantly the baddie’  well this tale which I believe is tale two, shows this point perfectly that there doesn’t always have to or is a good or bad guy in the story or even in real life events.

Right well as I said I don’t want to give too much away for the ones who haven’t read it, so I will leave it with a few of my thoughts…..

For me this book 100% hit home with the bullying and a family member having cancer, it had me feeling exactly how Conor felt and exactly how I felt when I was younger as I said before it really does bring you on an emotional rollercoaster and I think this piece of work is brilliant.

I really did love this book the story, having a story within a story was also a very nice touch so I would certainly recommend this book!
If you do get this book I hope you enjoy and leave me a comment saying what you thought.


My rating is: ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮ ✮  
(5 stars)
Thank you for reading.





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