I also have to give Chbosky credit: I had a hard time predicting what was going to happen as we got further into the story. And that’s just what I feel I can tell you without spoiling too much.
I mean, you got a kid who goes missing in the woods, and then when he comes back, has to build a treehouse to save the world from the Apocalypse. I maginary Friend feels a lot like Stephen King novels like It or Needful Things, these huge stories based around weird concepts that are both scary and hard to put down.
I normally only listen to audio books while at work, but the story was so intriguing and out there that I listened to it while checking email and cooking dinner. If he doesn’t, something bad will happen. And he’s in contact with the Nice Man, an invisible being who instructs him to build a treehouse in the woods he disappeared in, and to do it before Christmas. He’s smarter now, unable to sleep, and suffers from headaches a lot. He reappears a week later, unable to remember what happened to him, except being led out of the woods and back to civilization by someone called “The Nice Man.” While Kate is happy to have her son back, and things start to improve after he returns, Christopher has changed. However, soon after they move there, Christopher disappears in the woods near his school. Imaginary Friend follows Kate Reese and her son Christopher as they leave Kate’s abusive boyfriend and move to a small town in Pennsylvania. Yeah, I can see how the dude transitioned to horror. Really? Isn’t that a sweet, YA rom-com? How do you jump from that to horror? (looks up what that book is really about.) Oh. But before I started it, I found out the book was written by the same guy who wrote the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as well as wrote/directed its movie adaptation. I looked it up and it sounded up my alley, so when I had an Audible credit, I downloaded the audio book.
Over the past couple of months, people in the horror-themed Facebook groups I belong to have been raving about this particular book.
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