Teaser Tuesday[271]: A Monster Calls: A novel by Patrick Ness, Inspired by Siobhan Dowd, Illustrations by Jim Kay

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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A Monster Calls A novel by Patrick Ness, Inspired by Siobhan Dowd, Illustrations by Jim Kay

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Release Date: 2011

Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells.

Goodreads Synopsis:

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

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.

Excerpt:

“He'd never had a harder year of school or been more relieved for a summer holiday to come around than this last one.” (Paperback, pg. 68)

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