A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls is not the last book I have read, but it is the last book I really have loved. It has been written by Patrick Ness (from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd) and illustrated by Jim Kay.

A Monster Calls is the story of a thirteen years old boy called Conor. His mother is sick and he has a difficult life: he has to do everything at home due to the fact that his mother cannot move a lot and his father left them, he does not have any friends and he suffers bullying at school. One night, he receives the visit of a monster who promises to tell him three stories, but he also says to Conor that, after his stories, he has to tell his own story, the real story. 

A Monster Calls is a dark book; it is sad, painful, heartbreaking, but it is encouraging too. Although the whole story has the essence of a children tale, the storyline is serious and dramatic. It shows us the most difficult and terrible side of the cancer or any related disease, it reveals the situation of the people who are by the sick person, their thoughts, their fears and, also, their necessity of seeing that everything has finished to continue with their lives, to try to be normal people again. 

I have loved this book and the illustrations it has. I strongly recommend it because it makes the reader feels, and it is the kind of book that he is not going to forget.