What did people think of this?

To be honest I had a bit of a hard time getting through it. It took around a month for me to finish and I was able to get through IT in less than a week the first time I read it.

I think I was more interested in Charlie's relationship with Mr. Bowditch and Radar than any of the 'fairy tale' stuff. Once the focus went from that to saving the fantasy realm from evil it just felt kind of by the numbers. As far as recent books go I think 'The Institute' and even 'Billy Summers' were better.

To be clear this wasn't a bad book by any means but it's just not something I would rank highly against King's other books...