#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 … 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.more
Loved it
Boring
Interesting premise but overly long. I skimmed the last 100 pages. Too many characters and everyone seemed a stereotype. Still, I did finish it which I guess is saying something.
I wasn’t impressed. Not the usual Stephen King standard. I can’t explain my dislike of the story without giving too much away.
Just a great book!!!another greaat one by not only Stephen King , but also Owen King. Love it!!!
Steven King is my all time favorite author. Still reading this one and loving it.
very good
Another great King. Different and yet still within his genre. The man is a great story teller and captures the reader with multiple twists & turns.
It took me a while to read this book. It wasn’t as captivating as most of Stephen King’s novels. I have to say I was a little disappointed. I don’t know how much Owen contributed compared to how much Stephen contributed, but this book just didn’t have that “Stephen Kingness” flow to it. If I put the fact that this was written by Stephen King out of my mind, then it was a decent book.
I am so disappointed in this book! Both authors had a real opportunity to address feminism, but instead treated the reader to a shoot-em-up with an ending that had the men not really talking to the women and the women being “fulfilled” by taking care of babies. Too much time taken up with the women falling asleep; not enough time with the aftermath? Thumbs down!
The narrator does a beautiful job handling the multiple characters and accents. I don’t understand the reviews who say she is monotone. She is anything but that. The story is classic King. I do recommend this audio book.