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Sleeping Beauties

By: Stephen King, Owen King
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
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Summary

 A spectacular father/son collaboration like no other, 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...

The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.

(P)2017 Simon & Schuster©2017 Owen King Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fantasy Fiction
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Critic Reviews

No longer content with dominating the horror genre for decades, Stephen King now seems set on creating top-notch chillers as a family business....kick-started by a very Kingish high concept...made immersively believable by the usual Kingian control of a vast cast of brilliantly drawn characters. Bravo
'A beauty of a horror tale...The first epic collaboration between Stephen King and son Owen King is ambitious, heartbreaking and, when it comes to its central horrors, all too timely...The Kings create a thought-provoking work that examines a litany of modern-day issues
A bulging, colourful epic; a super-sized happy meal, liberally salted with supporting characters and garnished with splashes of arterial ketchup. (Xan Brooks)
Easily devoured, and I look forward to the next book from either or both Kings eagerly.... One of my favourite books of the year.
This delicious first collaboration between Stephen King (Doctor Sleep) and his son Owen (Intro to Alien Invasion) is a horror-tinged realistic fantasy that imagines what could happen if most of the women of the world fall asleep, leaving men on their own...The authors' writing is seamless and naturally flowing...once the action begins, it barrels along like a freight train'
The prose never loses its vitality and humour; the ideas are always intriguing; and there's no gainsaying the adventurousness and ambition
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The story was interesting and well written. Lagged a few times and there was times it got a little boring.

The Southern accent was really annoying - maybe because I'm not use to it.

pretty good

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I was very excited about this book. In the end I just wasn't a fan. It seemed very forced and didn't have any characters or moments that will stick with you.

It's okay.

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The speaking performance for this book by Marin Ireland was fantastic, I particularly liked her "Angel" character.
Great story, although slow in some parts. The detailed descriptions of the emissaries (animals) was very good. I also enjoyed that it doesn't get tied up in a beat bow for all the characters in the end.

Sleeping Beautiies

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Great story, I couldn't stop listening! Plenty of moments that made me pull a face and it kept my interest until the very end.

I loved it!

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Sleeping Beauties falls short of being a very good book. The story is great and the characters generally fine, while not all that intriguing outside of the main few, but the novel settles for a field goal and is unable to get the touchdown.

Almost...

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