With my reduced activity here lately I've only just found out about this book. I've said many times, Stephen King is at his best when he writes vulnerable children. He just yanks so hard at your heart strings that it becomes impossible not to get attached to the characters and their plight. Character like the losers club, Charlie from firestarter, dinah from the langoliers, ellie from pet cemetery, abbra from dr. Sleep, Trisha from Tom Gordon, Jake from the dark tower. Some of those characters and stories are a lot more popular than others, but they all gripped me and reached out to my parental instincts just the same. I'm really looking forward to this one.