Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

If it takes this man another twenty years to write another book I will not mind the long wait as long as it is equally as good as his second novel, Imaginary Friend. This over seven hundred page book was in my hands morning, noon, and night as I tried to get through the pages as fast as possible while still reading slowly enough to fully appreciate the plot and absorb all the details. It caused me to lose sleep as I kept saying to myself, ok, only one more chapter before I go to bed. I wish I could read this book again and experience it all for the first time. It’s a blend of everything I love to experience from reading a good book, it gets me excited to see what happens next. It’s a little scary, it’s supernatural and psychological, there are heroes that you love to root for and villains that you want to see meet their end. I didn’t even mind the religious and spiritual themes, beliefs that can irritate me at times, which did not do so in this case as they were appropriately subtle in the right places and given a villainous quality in a way that I enjoyed.

I think this is the last book I am going to have finished before the new year, and I ended it on a high note. I almost want to find a way to contact Mr. Chbosky and let him know that he needs to invest more time into writing novels because he is so incredibly talented. If your New Year’s Resolution is to read more, start it off right by reading this book. It will kickstart a new interest of reading in you and encourage you to hunt for similar books if you get the craving to read more, which I think this book will.