“George snickered a little. His fear was already gone; it had slipped away from him as easily as a nightmare slips away from a man who awakes.”

Seven teenage kids, a losers club living in a small town called Derry, team up. When Georgie, the brother of Bill is killed, the group encounters, all in their own way, the thing they are most scared of, the entity It. They decide that, as they are the only one seeing it, to hunt him down and kill it.

It is a book about what it means to be a kid and how we think we can overcome our fears as soon as we grow up. King mentioned in an interview once about It: “Fears aren’t something that are confined to us as children. Those same terrifying thoughts often rear their heads in our adult lives, often manifesting in vastly different, far more complicated ways.”
And so, this story is not only about found family, or a perfect example of how a masterfully story should be written. It’s an exploration of our childhood fears that grow old with you, but also demonstrates childhood feelings of freedom, happiness, innocence and all things associated with being a kid. And above it all, it’s a story with so much detail about the characters that you feel you are growing up with them.

Although I enjoyed this book a lot, like a lot a lot, it does have some points that were disturbing or were somewhat over abundant. In particular the parts with Mike’s research. It took the pacing to a drop, which made me loose my attention. Also, it discussed themes, of which homophobia, fatphobia, racism and abuse, that can be experienced as triggering. Besides that this book is a mere masterpiece and because of it, I will give it four and half balloons.