The two are similar enough in my mind to warrant comparison, and while A Monster Calls had me curled up on the couch bawling my eyes out, Skellig did not have the same effect (thank goodness, as I listened to it on my commute to work). I enjoyed this book, but I must admit that I think it suffered a bit for me in comparison to A Monster Calls. And that leads to a friendship and the belief that you should always have faith in the extraordinary. Michael confides his discovery to his new friend Mina, and the two of them help the man recover from his sufferings. One day, he goes into the creaky, unused garage and discovers that there is a man there, Skellig, who is cranky and in pain and not doing much of anything. But his baby sister was born prematurely and is very ill, and there is a heavy burden of worry on Michael's family. Skellig is about Michael, a 10-year-old boy who has just moved to a new home with his parents and baby sister.
Obviously, I was reading a book that had become a Big Deal. In fact, the audiobook features music from the opera. In any case, I read it and was a bit taken aback to learn in the forward to the book that this is a story that has been adapted into a radio show, a movie, and an opera. A quick search on my GoodReads made clear to me that I heard about Skellig from MANY people, and it's a little bizarre that I forgot about it so completely.
I downloaded it, but I had no recollection of what the book was about or where I had heard about it. I completely forgot that Skellig, by David Almond, was on my wish list until I was going through it the other day looking for audiobooks that were available for digital download from the Chicago Public Library.
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