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There are perhaps more explicit moral dilemmas in ''Memoirs''. On more than one occasion, Brudo grapples with the concept of doing the right thing and looking out for Max versus looking out for himself. Could you do something that would save a friend, but might kill you in the process? That’s the question Brudo has to answer and although the raison d'être for imaginary friends is clearly to support their creators in their weeks, months, years of need, that doesn’t make it any easier really, especially when you know things that many imaginary friends don’t stick around long enough to discover.
I can see this book being extremely popular because it’s an easy read, is remarkably fun, has adventure and mystery and is something unlike anything you’ll have read before. There are a few things that perhaps don’t add up if you look too closely, a few threads that might unravel if you pull hard enough (Oswald’s transformation, Teeny’s influence, the instability of a certain teacher, the odd link in with the gas station) and although I liked the ending, I did find that the very last page was a bit ''meh'' and too Hollywood-ised for my liking. But, it is undeniably an absorbing story that is more than a little magical and nitpicking as I am, I still can’t bear to deduct a single star.
Thanks go to the publishers for supplying this book.
