"The monster showed up after midnight. As they do." However, this isn't the monster that Conor has been expecting and is, instead, something ancient and wild. And, it was something very dangerous from Conor.
What a haunting story! I don’t mean haunting in the sense that something scary is going to jump out at you,(although it kind of does) but, haunting in the sense that once you start the story you continue to think about it even when you are not reading it. The story takes place in the United Kingdom. Conor O’Malley, a teenager dealing with his mother’s deteriorating health due to cancer has a full-on hard life. He’s in denial of just how sick his mother really is and the bullies at school tease him relentlessly about his mother’s condition (she has lost all of her hair from the chemo treatments) and beat him up so often he just comes to accept it as part of getting through his school day. His grandmother has such an overbearing manner he hates her visits to help out and loathes staying at her house when his mother has to go in for treatments at the hospital because his grandmother doesn’t allow him to touch any of her things and she is anal about keeping things neat and clean. His father left Conor and his mother six years prior to marry another woman with whom he now has a baby, also they moved to America. Conor’s father’s new wife is very possessive and tries to keep him from Conor and his Mom. His Dad has a very blasé attitude toward Conor, he doesn’t really get him. Conor asked his Dad if he could live with him and his new wife but his father won’t take him. The poor kid has all this stuff going on in his life to deal with and then the giant Yew tree outside in the cemetery they live by starts walking over to talk to him. The Mystic Isles have stories of the Green Man in their culture (and fairies, leprechauns, etc) . So is the Green Man there to help? Why is a giant Yew tree walking around and talking to Conor O’Malley? Has he finally got a little muscle on his side against all the bullies? Wait till you find out. You won’t forget this story.
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