Rating: somewhere between 2 and 3 out of 5. The reason I can't make up my mind between 2 and 3 stars is that I absolutely despised some parts and loved some other (earlier) parts. And since i cannot give half stars here, I've decided on the lower score for now.
The second half of the book was Hell. Literally.
The story started off really well. It was interesting, it was new but with some strong King vibes. I liked it and it had me hooked on for a while. But at some point, I'm not sure exactly where but it must've been around the 50% mark, I totally lost interest.
It just started to get boring, repetitive. It was when the pov started to switch between characters to show how they're manipulated that things started to go downhill. I understand the point of doing that of course, but some of the characters' stories were so similar (specially Eddies and the twins) that I sometimes confused them. Plus, I don't think it was that significant to show every single side character's story. This made the story too long, unnecessarily long.
I guess some of the repetitiveness and the length of the story served the purpose and the main concept of the story because that's what those people in the imaginary side were going through, but as a reader, it was like torture to me and literally made me think "Please, stop it".
I wasn't a huge fan of the ending either. I could understand one of the characters being this excessively religious person (and I totally didn't mind it), but to suddenly give that religious overtone to the whole story towards the end to explain the morale of the story bugged me.