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Book Review of A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls
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A lovely heartwarming story about a boy and his mother. His mother is ill and Conor has a hard time dealing with it. He is having to grow up way before his time. It has left him with a nightmare he dreams every night. Then one night a monster calls but it is not the one from his nightmare, as he had thought it would be. This one is there for a different reason.
I loved how this showed how everyone who is involved with an illness... the son, the mother, grandmother or even people on the outside, cope however they can, in any manner that they can. It is a book I think everyone should read.