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Sleeping Beauties

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Sleeping Beauties

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

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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Fantastic job by Marin!
It almost always seems that even Stephen King doesn't want to finish his books because of his gift and love to show us into new worlds, another great story with a fall flat ending.
I hope that this perhaps gets a sequel because this is now up there with my favorites.

god I hope this gets some sort of sequel.

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I'm a huge fan of King's work - everything from his early works to Mr Mercedes series I've read or listened to over the years. I've pre-ordered this book almost a year earlier counting days to its release in anticipation....5 hours into it o just had to stop. The book lacks King's magic - purpose, wittiness, character development, atmosphere. I couldn't continue with it because it's really not his work. I'm sure he has given his name to help his kid get audience. That's pretty much all you'd get from it - his name on the title. Oh well, there is always the next one I suppose

Impostor book

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Really great book. Awesome narrator. The story was very engaging and certainly highlights the mess that men have made of the world. I know if I was in the same position the women were in and had to choose between staying and coming back I might have just stayed.

Great Book

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just loved the story as always from Stephen king and hes son. was read very well

awsum

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Narrator was great, excepting her Australian accent. The story felt like a good Stephen King book. Not one of the greatest but like an Under The Dome or Needful Things.

I enjoyed it

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