A Monster Calls Review

Goodreads page link here. Title: A Monster Calls Author: Patrick Ness Published On: September 27, 2011 Started Reading On: June 21, 2017 Finished On: June 24, 2017 Average Star Rating: 4.36 out of 5 stars My Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

My Thoughts (Spoilers) This book broke me. I am not even joking, I don't generally cry very often while reading, and I read More Happy Than Not without crying at all. A Monster Calls is the first book in 2017 to make me cry, the forty-eighth book I read.

Conner is such a beautiful character, and I hate how nobody really figured out what was going in his head, and thought he wanted all these loopholes when all he wanted was to punished for some of the dark thoughts. And everytime he gets close to getting what he thinks he deserves, for hurting a classmate or destroying his grandmother's house, and he didn't get any shit for what he did, and he was so upset about it.

Speaking about Conner, I liked how complex his character is, you can tell that he was unsure about what could happen to his mother with her cancer, and he didn't know how to handle it.

Now the monster, I love the stories he told, and how they all ended up being connected with the story of Conner's life. The monster was more than just a monster, it was a character with their own history.

I really liked how the reason why Conner called the monster wasn't because of how he wanted it to heal his mother, but because he needed heal, and that was very refreshing to have to focus on internal healing compared to external healing.

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