If You Could See Me Now

What if imaginary friends were real? If they were people who worked to help children and just happened to be invisible to everyone but the child? In Cecelia Ahern's If You Could See Me Now, Luke has just made a new friend named Ivan but he's the only one who can see Ivan. His very strait-laced aunt, Elizabeth, avoids additional complications in her life and thinks this imaginary friend business is ridiculous, but then, one day, she meets a man named Ivan.

To some extent, the book was absolutely great but I am also not completely in love with it. I don't even know if I can explain why. It is a cute story and there is drama and romance and a unique idea but it just didn't grab me the way some books do and it was made more obvious by trying to get through it for the Read-A-Thon. It wasn't something I needed to set down and it wasn't dry or boring but it just didn't have that hold on me. The ending was pulled off beautifully but I just felt like the middle dragged a bit, though the fact that I was reading this at 4 o'clock in the morning might have a teensy little bit to do with it.

Apparently though, it is being made into a movie which I think I might actually like more than the book. Different stories work better with different mediums and I think a film might do better in this case. I'll have to wait and see.

Rating: 3.5