imaginary friend by stephen chbosky summary

She’s an admirable balance of responsible and badass which is something I’d love to see more for female protagonists.Ĭhbosky does a good job of attributing complete personalities to even small characters in the book. Christopher is endearing and is mom is incredible. Additionally, there are some wonderfully disturbing images and scenes which is exactly what a horror novel should deliver. The book is well written as far as style and pacing goes.

If you do, go for this book, you might really love it. That’s just my opinion, you may fall into the target audience for Christian horror. By the twist at the end, which is another issue entirely, I was completely bored by the whole mythos.

I do not care to read religious fiction of any kind and I felt tricked into it. With a page length of over 700 pages this became extremely tiresome to me by the end. It also contains specific references to Christian mythology but does not build them up enough to mean anything new or special. evil and dissolves into religious tropes involving virgin births and martyrdom. Where it fails is attributing the horror to the devil. Imaginary Friend has some wonderfully unnerving scenes throughout and truly does delivers on the horror. Unfortunately, by the end the supernatural is all explained by traditional Christianity and it’s ruined. It’s creepy, it’s mysterious, and it’s intriguing. The first third of the book is solid supernatural horror. From here, Christopher gets lured into a strange world of dark magic and more power than he ever dreamed of having. Imaginary Friend is about a young boy who starts hearing voices. First is the spoiler free review, followed by the spoiler full review and summar. This post of Imaginary Friend by author Stephen Chbosky was adapted from two previous posts.

Imaginary friend by stephen chbosky summary