No structure and it’s all over the place ,hope the person who wrote it seeks help for his mental health as it certainly sounds like he needs it. The edition I read had a highly dramatic first chapter which the author just seems to 'grow out of' rather than engaging with any bigger questions about identity. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I feel like a lot of celebs and non celebs bring out a book as it's the next step for them, but sometimes just because you can doesn't mean you should. This book definitely reads more as fiction then non-fiction, especially the bits that appear to be written by one of his invisible friends?

As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I jumped at the chance to review what promised to be a story based on the ideas of gender and sexuality, framed in the life of a man growing up in rural Ireland. I am astonished this has been published and beg anyone who is considering reading it to save their time - it truly is awful.I don't know if it's an attempt at a very directed stream of consciousness, but I feel that Jonathan has just detailed every single thing that he can remember about his life with no continuous thread to pull it all together. The anecdotes are extremely vivid and detailed - narrating almost minute by minute, word for word of a day that happened to a 4 year old, over 30 years ago.

Magical Land: Jonathan Joly claims to have retreated into a complex, vivid fantasy world as a child where magic could happen and fantasy characters abounded. Here he experienced happiness and joy in the company of his friends Ciara, Grace, Jemma, and Louise, all of them girls and all of them pledged to wed him.I have said many times since Eduardo expressed his interest in being more girly you jumped on that like yes, now I can use this to my advantage. In All My Friends are Invisible, Jonathan Joly, known widely as one of social media's most successful content creators, shares the secret he's kept hidden these many years. It will require grit, hardship, pain and suffering, but the rewards will be great, and the journey will be greater, and the adventures will be endless.

If he claims to have been traumatised to such a horrific extent, I have to question why he allows millions of people to watch his children online grow up and watch many private and sensitive moments. In writing this book, Joly hopes to reach out to all those who, like him, have relied on invisible friends for emotional support. Lets not forget the painful descriptions of everything that happens, for example at the beginning of the book Jonathan describes the breakfast, he, Anna and the kids had at Costa; this information is completely unnecessary and would of been sorted if edited properly.I hope that he’s managed to get the help he needs and can continue being his authentic self with his family, who sound lovely.

The dialogue doesn’t fit the supposed age of the narrator and all in all I just came out of this book feeling a bit strange. He shows the beautiful world he retreated to time and time again when life was unbearable for his 'skin machine'. It details Jonathan's very early life in which he escapes to an imaginary world to cope with a lack of acceptance for the child that he is or wants to be. You first off feel for him his family life was turbulence with domestic arguments through his parents.

The author seems to think that hearing about his life, which was neither unusual or particularly terrible, will save people but I think quite the opposite. Whether the book fits into whatever box you're trying to squeeze it into is irrelevant, whether you understand or relate, is irrelevant. The extent of Jonathan’s imaginative world he created reflects the extremes of the emotional pain he endured and how this is the only way he could escape and survive through childhood. what did you gain from this apart from income through sales, exploiting your young son, and how humiliating your family, is it fair that they now are going to be exposed to being spotted and potentially abused for your stories. The book has no real plot and feels like you are reading fiction, and the ending is sudden and jarring, and would have been better for the book to end with Jonathan now in the present day reflecting on his childhood as he finishes the book.