Book Review: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - Reviewed by Jony Gabriel

Reviewed by Jony Gabriel, TimeOut Bookstore, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.

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

The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.

It wants the truth.

Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.

ISBN (UK edition) 9781406311525
Published by Walker

Reviewed by Jony Gabriel, TimeOut Bookshop, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand

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Great, great review. You can tell that you are passionate about books and aren't just reading off the back of the book and saying if you like it or not. You, sir, have another subscriber.