This book somehow manages to make you terrified but also sad to not be a part of such an exciting journey with such good friends.

Whilst it meanders through and explores so many themes, in typical King fashion, most of the main characters have personal demons to battle as well as supernatural.

This can be a brutal read at times but the story is, for the great part, portrayed to us through a captivating child wonderment, with character whom you can really empathize with their fragile young feelings.

The basic premise of the story sets up a really interesting space for King to explore, and explore it he does. How can you stop an unseen and un-named entity that manifests itself in various ways? Kings choice to use children to portray half of the storyline has paid off really well here as he really plays on the vividness of children's imagination and the obvious horrors that It brings to Derry.