When those stories are finished Conor will have to tell the final tale, his truth.
The monster tells him that Conor called him, and that he will tell three stories. Then one night at 7 minutes past midnight he is visited by a monster. Thirteen year old Conor has been having a nightmare. How was it that what is ostensibly an illustrated children’s story left me sobbing and late for work? The perfect marriage of Patrick Ness’ acerbic prose and Jim Kay’s darkly atmospheric illustrations has a lot to do with it. “They can be more important than anything. “Stories are important,” the monster said. It is powerful in its anger, its grief and its love. There is a rare type of story, one that strikes a chord deep within you and pulls forth the rawest of emotions.
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