Imaginary Friend

Great horror for 400 pages, then weird religious pamphlet

The opening of this book is brilliant. The first 200 pages had a half dozen scenes that gave me chills. I was excited to go back to it every night.

Around 2/3rds of the way through, the horror premise is utterly abandoned and replaced with action/adventure allegory. Once the allegory starts, it gets weirder and more literal as the novel progresses.

I don't mind exploring religious ideas in literature, but this is a total Trojan horse. The anger from reading the last three chapters made me wish I hadn't read any of the first 600ish pages.

What a ride this book was! I really enjoyed this book. Right from the minute I picked it up I was hooked and couldn't put it down. It was really good and was almost a 5 star book, however I felt like the last 150 pages of so were a bit weird. I felt like it the story could have been told just as well with a bit less pages. Overall it was a creepy book that kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the book. Looking forward to more books like this from this author!