Kelly's outlook on life is bleak. A bad car accident and having her boyfriend of three years walk out on her has left her anything but optimistic. The only comfort she has is her writing, but even her muse seems to be MIA. Her controlling sister's driving her crazy and she keeps having strange dreams about a sexy, winged man that seems familiar to her.
A flock of rogue pigeons, a nursery rhyme, an unknown savior and one superstitious, metrosexual friend later, Kelly finds her entire life turned upside down. She's plummeted head first into the extraordinary and suddenly finds herself saddled with a see-through imaginary man she had created when she was a child… Only she doesn't remember him ever being so completely irresistible…
Kelly hadn't planned on falling in love, especially with an imaginary being, but her heart had other ideas. Can she figure out a way to keep him, to prove that magic and fantasy can exist in real life? Or will he be torn from her forever by the self-centered world's lack of belief?
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| Reviewer: Stevi B. |
Kelly is a mess; ever since she was in a car wreck , broke her leg, got an infection, and then her boyfriend of 3 years left her for his secretary while she was still in the hospital. She is supposed to be a writer but who can write about love and fantasy with a life like hers? She just wishes people would go away. Why can’t it be like it is when you are children and have imaginary friends who are there just for you? Kelly, her sister and their friends used to have the most marvelous world of imagination and fun with big gorgeous guardians who always protected them from all hurts. Why grow up just to be hurt?
I really liked the story in Beyond Wild Imaginings. It seemed a little difficult, for me, to get into the story at the beginning but maybe my imagination just needed a little work. By the time the story really took off, I was completely enthralled. This is a story about the power of imagination and creativity that we all need in our lives to make them really full and complete. Kelly is a very gifted, creative, imaginative woman that makes her living as an author of fantasy in a world that just doesn’t quite appreciate her. She doesn’t fit the “norm,” whatever that is, and so she feels different from the people around her. But the only thing really wrong with Kelly is that the people around her are losing their sense of wonder and playfulness in this modern age of the internet and videos. People she knows and especially children have forgotten how to just play and believe in make believe, imaginary friends, creative worlds, etc… If Kelly can’t figure out how to revitalize people’s sense of wonder and play, her “world” and the fantasy world she creates will die and be lost forever. And most importantly Garren, her own personal guardian from childhood, will be gone and take a vital piece of Kelly with him forever.
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