Sleeping Beauties

Books | Fiction / Horror

3.6

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Stephen King

Owen King

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.

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Author

Stephen King

Pages

702

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

2017-09-26

ISBN

150116340X 9781501163401

Ratings

Google: 4

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"I think this book truly shows how amazing Stephen King is as a writer. This book is a perfect combination of horror and deep metaphorical and political meaning. Great read! "

Joanna's Book Corner

"I have very mixed feelings on this book. Different parts of the book range from 3⭐ to 5⭐. I think I wanted more out of it, but I don't know what that would be. I did like it, but I feel a little let down. I can't really put my finger on why. The strengths of this book are in the women. I really loved reading about many of them. I feel like there definitely could have been more information on them, and less on some other stuff. However, there are SO MANY characters in this book, and only a few are really standouts. As with most of the long King books, I would probably love it more if it was 100-200 pages shorter 😂. Overall, it was pretty good; unfortunately, it's not one of my favorites."

Emily

"I liked it!! This actually took me almost a month to read though…. It didn’t necessarily keep me drawn to it for more than a chapter or two at a time. I will say, the ending was a bit disappointing too!! I almost wish that it ended the other way… I did love how almost every character had their own insane character arcs… even the fox :)Overall I give it a 8/10. "

Sarah Bogner

"Unsettling premise, interwoven small-town plot-threads, feminism and social imbalance commentary, all bound in a soft-textured hardcover. Wonderfully written, too"

Ariel Ayres

"I really enjoyed this one, the story was different than anything I've read before. "

Slayermel

"Starts off slow but keeps you reading !"

Leslie Sydlosky-Carey

"I loved this book, it was exciting and I love how you knew what every character thought! "

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Leighan Toomey

"Overall I really liked this book. The plot was interesting and some, certainly not all, of the characters were very likable. My biggest complaint is that the book is very long which would be fine if everything in it was relevant. I don’t think that’s the case here. Upon finishing, I realized a lot of time was wasted on events that had no actual relevance to the plot."