![]() ![]() There’s so much packed into the first page. Now we know that this story is magical realism. In the first line, we learn that the book has a monster in it, that the monster shows up just after the witching hour of midnight, and that this is when monsters tend to show up. “The monster showed up just after midnight. But I’m going to focus on how from the first line to the last, Ness makes every word and every scene count. There’s so much I could talk about: Ness’s gorgeous use of metaphor, his plot’s perfect pace, the way he foreshadows the ending with his beginning. A MONSTER CALLS, a fantastical tale about a young boy’s struggle to come to terms with his mother’s cancer, was a joy to read, a joy to reread, and a joy to study, even though (or maybe because) I fought tears through much of the book. ![]()
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