A review by chroniclesofabookmum
It by Stephen King

5.0

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too”

Derry, Maine your average City with a terrifying secret. Seven teenagers are unfortunate to discover the monster known as, IT, in their home town. Now grown-ups with their own lives the teenagers are drawn by a strong force and an oath made many years ago, back to Derry in order to face IT in what they hope is the final time. Will they all return? Will they all survive? Will we finally say goodbye to IT?

So many people have reviewed IT so the idea of reviewing this myself is daunting, but I wanted to give it a go. IT was the second Stephen King book that I read and I could not put it down. In true King style this book is full of description as you can imagine with it being 1100+ pages. This book definitely could have been condensed and a lot shorter but then it wouldn’t be a classic King’s piece of writing. I don’t feel like I am easily scared, before I read this book I was convinced that it would not frighten me. Wow, I was wrong. I mean who isn’t scared of a shapeshifting, child snatching being who feeds off the imaginations of children shifting into their worst fears. *shivers* I found myself sneakily peering down the plug hole praying for everything to be normal. Overall, this book was utterly fantastic and has made me so excited to read another masterpiece by Stephen King.