"IT"

I´m back!! After a few months offline I have finally decided to keep updating the blog.  Today, I want to honor the film It that was released a few weeks ago and upload my review of the novel that inspired it, as I had the chance to read it last summer. Both the film and the book are amazing and I recommend that if you dare and are brave enough ;) go and enjoy them. Here you have my review. Enjoy!

SYNOPSIS:

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. 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 one'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 they 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.

Credits to Goodreads.com

REVIEW:

Horror and solely horror. There is no other way of describing Stephen King´s narrative.  In his work, King introduces the reader to Maine, indeed to a village called Derry, which is suddenly full of deaths and mysterious disappearances. The main characters of the novel are a varied bunch of kids: Billy, Richie, Ben, Stan, Eddie and Beverly, all of them victims of the main bully at school and also the target of “it”. Following his own style, King presents a terrifying monster, who is commonly called “it”, that usually shapes itself as Pennywise, a clown prepared to scare and haunt kids in Derry.

The book is written by an omniscient unknown narrator and the story is divided into two different periods: the childhood of the main characters (1957/57) and their adulthood, 27 years after the main “incident”. The plot fits and intertwines perfectly, explaining the events that happened before the call at the beginning of the book.

The best part of this novel is the way King tells the story, describing the horrible creature that haunts “the losers” from Derry when they were children and also when they were adults. Besides, even if it is quite a long book, it makes the reader wonder and overthink about what it is about to happen, chapter after chapter. I personally loved the characters, “the losers” and the fact that even if they are all different, they are able to come together and fight evil. Richie´s witty jokes, Eddie´s hypochondria, Ben´s tenderness… are the best pause for the frenetic moments.

There is not much left to add, but I would like to highlight that is 100% recommendable if you are looking for a book that not only entertains you, but also keeps you on the edge and may be responsible for all the nightmares. Besides, Stephen King is the only author who could create a creature that is capable of terrorizing not only his characters, but a whole generation of readers that would never dare to approach a creepy clown.