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A review by booksnpunks
Чоки by John Wyndham
5.0
Absolutely loved this. Wyndham is skilful in unsettling his reader so that although what is happening might not be scary, the writing makes it really creepy. As soon as I started this I knew it would be a perfect halloween read and I couldn't wait to get back to it everytime after I'd put it down.
The story follows a young boy called Matthew who is soon accompanied by an imaginary friend named Chocky. What soon becomes clear is that Chocky, to Matthew, isn't imaginary, and starts influencing Matthew in a way that his parents and those around him don't like or understand. The way the story moved forward was full of tension and I think the plot was drawn out incredibly well. There was issues with gender representation, however, which I find happens in a lot of sci-fi books from this era, but Wyndham is a writer who I think tries to combat it albeit naively and not always in the right way.
I would highly recommend this because I enjoyed it on par with Day of the Triffids and just didn't want to stop reading, it was so good. Can't wait to read more of Wyndham's stuff now.
The story follows a young boy called Matthew who is soon accompanied by an imaginary friend named Chocky. What soon becomes clear is that Chocky, to Matthew, isn't imaginary, and starts influencing Matthew in a way that his parents and those around him don't like or understand. The way the story moved forward was full of tension and I think the plot was drawn out incredibly well. There was issues with gender representation, however, which I find happens in a lot of sci-fi books from this era, but Wyndham is a writer who I think tries to combat it albeit naively and not always in the right way.
I would highly recommend this because I enjoyed it on par with Day of the Triffids and just didn't want to stop reading, it was so good. Can't wait to read more of Wyndham's stuff now.