This book was a terrifying, thought provoking, beautifully written nightmare from beginning to end. I lost track of the number of times I audibly gasped or shook my head “no!”. I could not turn the pages fast enough and I was both eager and afraid to learn what would happen next right up until the very last sentence. While in my personal opinion Stephen King may be overstating things by calling this book Tremblay’s best (that honor goes to Head Full of Ghosts in my book) he’s not far off the mark, this was a truly remarkable, unsettling, and upsetting read on many, many levels. I only hope the new film adaptation can manage to capture a sliver of the dread and suspense that oozes from this novel.