This week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the horror novel, It by Stephen King. This book was originally published in 1986 by Viking with a page count of 1, 138 pages. The audiobook is 44 hours & 55 minutes in length and read by Steven Weber. The following plot overview is provided from the B&N page: Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
This book was intense. I love how King develops characters and I really enjoyed the story structure. While there are many characters to keep track of, King makes it easy to follow which is the focus point at any given moment. The more I read of his books the more I am curious as to how much of the recurring themes in his novels come from his own personal experiences. I enjoyed the fact that we met the characters as children and the second half of the book is them as adults. I feel like even though we don’t hear a lot about their time in early adulthood, I don’t feel like we missed out on anything. Kind of like when friends say it’s the first time, they have talked in a long time, but it felt like no time had passed. This novel brought me back to my childhood fear of clowns. I also live in an area that has sewer drains like in this story and I can’t look at them in any other way now. This novel is currently in my top 3 of my favorite Stephen King novels. I think I know why I like his denser novels and it has everything to do with his character development.
I give this novel 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Tomorrow for the Missing Person Saturday feature, I am highlighting the missing person’s case of Conrad Marcano Rivera. Next week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the young adult horror novel, Cirque de Freak: A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan. Until then keep reading on; Nerd out!
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