A review by dizible
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

2.5

I was so enamoured with the first maybe 2/3rds of this book, the characters were so loveable and the spooky elements were so interesting. But this thing just took such an incredible nosedive in quality towards the end, for the last at least 300 pages I was just pleading with the author to write an ending already. The religious elements that started appearing were so heavy handed and lacked any nuance, when we read the first chapter from Mary Katherine’s perspective I genuinely thought she was some kind of a joke character. There was also just constant repetition of phrases and descriptions, a lot of them that weren’t even that good to begin with. 

I’d recommend reading maybe half of this and then just use your own imagination to fill in the rest, I guarantee it’ll be better than what’s actually written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, and Domestic abuse