What Am I Reading: A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)

I'm pretty sure this is meant to be a YA book, which is fine with me. I've loved me some YA since back before I WAS YA. (See last week's post about Owl In Love) This book was recommended to me by the same friend who recommended Kathryn Moon's books to me. Anyway, I enjoyed this book a lot and I was ecstatic to learn that it's also a movie--with Sigorney Weaver in the role of Conor's grandmother. 

At first, I was surprised that I hadn't heard about it sooner, but then I realized that it came out in 2016, which was NOT a good year for me and especially not a good year for movies about someone losing a parent. OMG. Just thinking about watching it back then makes me slightly sick. But I think I'll risk seeing it now. Or now-ish. Definitely not while I'm actively trying to write a fluffy little romcom. Must preserve that romcom mindset.

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Calls-Inspired-idea-Siobhan-ebook/dp/B00D460VJ2

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. 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 monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.