

He cannot share them with anyone, till one fine night a monster comes knocking on his bedroom window and his life changes drastically. Conor has nightmares which he cannot speak of. “A Monster Calls” is about thirteen-year old Conor and his mother who is suffering from cancer and there seems to be no hope for her.


I rarely cry when I read books but some of them just compel me to because of the connect we share in some way or the other. When I started reading, “A Monster Calls” by Patrick Ness, I did not imagine that I would be so taken in by the story, that I would be impacted by its plot to this extent, that I would cry at the end of the book or for that matter not stop thinking about it. Author: Patrick Ness, From an Original Idea by Siobhan Dowd
