<< - Do you want to build a treehouse guys? >>
-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend.
⭐4/5
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Pages: 705
Publishing house: Grand Central
ISBN: 1538731339
Synopsis
Imagine... Leaving your house in the middle of the night. Knowing your mother is doing her best, but she's just as scared as you.
Imagine... Starting a new school, making friends. Seeing how happy it makes your mother. Hearing a voice, calling out to you.
Imagine... Following the signs, into the woods. Going missing for six days. Remembering nothing about what happened.
Imagine... Something that will change everything... And having to save everyone you love.
Opinion
So, Dreamers 🌻, I have so much to tell you about this book!
Narration
I loved the author's prose! It is really wonderful, it does not need so much description for you to imagine the places and landscapes in which this story takes place, or so much description or so much dialogue on the pages. Everything just flows in the story, and it's wonderful how this story unfolds. It's one of the things I love about Stephen Chbosky.
Besides that the elements of suspense and mystery, as well as the fundamental element of the thriller are really well reflected in the story, so much so that you really get to see almost everything with a dark and mysterious perspective. But, he in all this darkness adds those elements of light and brightness to the story, which just make it scarier.
Thanks to Stephen's writing I was able to immerse myself in this story and I loved it!
History
From the first moment you start reading, and Stephen's narrative grabs you, you can't take your eyes off reading. Not only for all the elements that I mentioned before or how well structured the story is. Rather because of how quickly everything happens and the fact that you don't know anything.
Everything happens very quickly from the beginning, and there is so much mystery that you want to know more, because the characters do not really know anything either. And the closer you get to the middle of the book and it appears that you get to the entire development of the story, the more afraid you are of finishing the book because you are missing half and it seems that you are about to finish reading.
Although this is not true.
After the second half of the book everything goes MUCH SLOWER. Everything turns into chaos. Literally chaos. You no longer know what is happening, you are uncertain about what will happen and you want to know more eagerly how it will end. Then there is the fact that Stephen gives us TURNS IN THE PLOT THAT TOTALLY CHANGE THE STORY. And it adds more suffering, because you want everything to end and it doesn't!
However, the second half of the book left me with a bittersweet taste, because although I liked the twists in the plot and the suspense, everything started to be more fanciful and it was religious themes that I really did not expect and definitely did not like.
<< A young man with an old soul. Or an old man with a young heart >>
-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend
Characters.
There are many characters that are part of the story, not only are Cristopher and his mother, you could say that it is a whole town. So I'm going to talk to you in general about what the main characters seemed to me.
Stephen Chbosky created realistic characters and characters that you empathize with, and even if you want to hate them, you can't, because you know their sorrows, their suffering, their fears and their desires.
Kate Reese is an example of this. She is a character that you really come to admire for her development within the story, as a strong woman and a struggling mother who wants to raise her son no matter what.
In addition, we also have Christopher Reese, who is a child who sees everything with innocence and the best eyes in the world, but who sees his mother suffer and tries to be the best possible son.
I really loved how Stephen came to deal with issues from the past of these characters that not many do, such as family violence or rape, even depression and alcoholism. He knew how to add these characteristics to the characters and become part of them, of their past, present and probably future.
Conclusions
Imaginary Friend is a story in which I loved the author's prose, how he made us feel inside the story, how he added the elements of suspense, mystery, terror. As from the first moment he traps you within its pages with everything that happens and unfolds within the story. In addition, there is the fact that there are many twists in the plot, which totally change the story of the book.
Stephen developed the characters, making them so real that you can't get to hate them. How their traumas are part of them, of their past and present. He came to touch such delicate subjects that not many authors dare and I loved that!
However, the second half of this story disappointed me because there was more fantasy than I would have expected, there were themes of religion that I really didn't expect at all and I didn't like how Stephen developed them into the story.
Imaginary Friend, it was a book that left me with a bittersweet taste in my mouth, because there were many elements that I loved, but there were also others that I did not like at all.
-Fer 🌻🌻
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