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.