Sleeping Beauties

A Novel

De: Stephen King, Owen King

Narrado por: Marin Ireland

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), 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 wanted 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 woman’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.

Not a typical King novel.

Hardly a suspenseful moment i. the entire story. I kept waiting for something to jump in but nothing. Too many characters to rezlly develop most of them. I enjoy the company of Stephen King's writtings as I take very long walks everyday. This one failed to keep my total attention.

Political overtones were too much

I have several favorite authors, but Stephen King books are the ones that opened the world of reading for me and I'm one of the original Constant Readers. As a result I read every Stephen, Tabitha, Owen King & Joe Hill item published. I enjoy them all and will continue to buy their books. This one was an interesting story, but way, way, WAY, too over the top with political stereotypes. In my opinion it detracted a bit from the overall story.

Not the King's best.

A bit drawn out, with social commentary pepperd through. No closure on the story world.

never really bonded with characters or the story

I never felt like I was pulled into the story. didn't relate to the characters.

Long and boring at times

I'm normally a huge SK fan, but I think the approach with co-authoring this really dragged it out longer than it needed to be. The plot itself was interesting, but I could feel the webs of sleep attacking me several times!