![]() ![]() He is on a haunting mission that only he has the capacity to undertake: to protect his older brother Ambrose, to protect his town from the wrath of the demonic entity that is the “hissing lady” who is ambitious in her pursuit to cross over from the imaginary to the real world. ![]() ![]() It intercepts a scene where little David Olson, in the dead of night, has fled his home in the small town of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, into the nearby Mission Street Woods. It is a spine-tingling, uplifting yarn which would do Stephen King proud.Ĭhbosky starts the story with an enigmatic prologue that takes the reader 50 years into the past before the primary narrative begins. The 700-plus, odd, twisted pages of Imaginary Friend hold a much darker fate that, although revolving around the life of a child, are less a story about the awkwardness of youth and more of a meditation on human brutality. Stephen Chbosky’s latest offering Imaginary Friend is a blood-soaked, bone-chiller of a horror novel - a far cry from his beloved coming-of-age debut The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which tapped into the difficulties of navigating relationships and love as an adolescent struggling with mental health illnesses. ![]()
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