Title: It         

Author: Stephen King  

Genre: Thriller, Mystery

Publisher: Scribner  

Format: Paperback

Pages: 1156

Rating: 5/5 stars

*Warning: Mature content. Parents please be advised*

Synopsis (Goodreads):

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person’s deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing…

The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of It was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until the grown-up children were called back, once more to confront It as It stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

Frightening, epic, and brilliant, Stephen King’s It is one of the greatest works of a true storytelling master.

Review:

I’m so glad I finally read this beast of a book. It may have taken me all of October, but I did it and I’m proud of myself; not only for reading a massive book, but for reading a scary book! There were parts of the book that were haunting, maddening, and just downright weird, but I really enjoyed the story!

The one thing that made this book special was the character development. King spent hundreds of pages helping you to get to know the characters so that you became invested in them and their lives and what would happen to them! You want to see what is happening to them and it’s the characters that really hooked me to the story too!

The story behind Pennywise is also brilliant, and I can’t imagine what is going on in Stephen King’s mind to write about a character like Pennywise! The book was also quite gruesome but not in a disgusting kind of way, but more disturbing. There was only one scene of the book that I really questioned why it was necessary to put it in, but I feel like it might be a spoiler?? I might be able to watch the movie after reading this now, even though I’ve heard the movie is different!

Alright that’s enough ramblings!

Happy reading!