I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 (spoilers)

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frick Eddie Video.

I thought parts of Blacktail were disturbing, but this one had me sick to my stomach several times. The flashback of the kid that wanted to travel in space, followed by the reveal that it was Eddie Video each time, cemented him as one of my most hated literary villains.

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Dude, I told you

Talking to the wife about it I said I really did not expect an imaginary friend to be one of my all time most hated literary characters but he definitely is.

Early on I was enjoying it and thinking this is pretty unique and you got hints it was going to be dark like early in an Ivan chapter the random kids imaginary friend on the bus noticed Ivan could see him and the imaginary firned was just staring him down and about to do something until Ivan bolted off the bus. Read that and was like, hmm, that's going to be good. But man about 100 pages in it got crazy.

At that point you just thought Eddie was just maybe like other imaginary friends but worse but still thought he might be limited to staying with their kid and probably only around when Kay was watching a video. But then Ivan and Mack are talking outside about what to do to kill Eddie and the chapter ends revealing that Eddie was out there listening to their whole conversation I was like o dear god this is about to get wild.

Eddie making Kay jump out the window was a pretty big turning point/shocker too. Like this little shite is actively trying to kill her.

I really enjoyed it overall and thought the ending was great. You're right, it definitely gave the option to have a sequel if he wanted to. But a nice finish if he left it alone.

Glad you liked it. Facebook fantasy book group came through again with the recommendation.