“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
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An extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss.
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.. ©Walker Books

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A Monster Calls von Patrick Ness mag zwar wie ein Horrorbuch aussehen, aber es ist eine unglaublich schöne aber traurige Geschichte über Conor, der in dem Monster einen guten (und seinen einzigen Freund) findet. Es will ihm helfen seine große Angst (loszulassen) zu überwinden.
Dieses Buch ist einfach ein MUSS für jeden Leser. Es ist voll mit Lektionen fürs Leben, die sich jeder zu Herzen nehmen sollte :) PLUS ganz viele tolle Bilder!!!
Wohlverdiente 5 von 5 Sternen.
*im Deutschen unter dem Titel "Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht" erschienen.*