A review by msethna
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

5.0

A colleague recommended this one to me and I can honestly say that this one tugged at my heart strings. There are only few occasions that a book sucks me in and this one did. Once I started, I could not put it down. It is a beautiful written tale of a mother and a son struggling with reality that cancer is taking over her life. I connected to it at all levels – as a mother who loves my children so deeply that I would do whatever I needed to do to protect them – as a daughter who has watched my mother go through chemo and radiation fighting to stay positive and strong while she kicks cancer in the butt – as a friend who has seen one too many of my closest friends lose a parent to this awful disease. Warning… you may shed tears. I know I did.

#mustread2016