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Title: Sleeping Beauties
Author: Stephen King, Owen King
Narrator: Marin Ireland
Format: Unabridged
Length: 25 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-26-17
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
Featuring a conversation with the authors!
In 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.
Members Reviews:
Marin Ireland does a wonderful reading
I own the book and like to listen to the audio in between, sometimes with.
Marin's reading on this is excellent.
Completely engrossing experience.
The story is a masterpiece. Would you expect any less?
Hopefully this opens up more doors to the talent that is Owen King.
Do yourself a favour and go buy this epic tale.
Average
Characters not well developed and there were some big plot holes. I wouldn't reread. Doubt Stephen King wrote any of this. It doesn't 'sound' like him.
Sadly I found it dull!
I can't believe I'm writing this. I've loved Stephen King for more than 30 years. It feels like my birthday whenever a new book comes out.
But... this dragged for me. I had to start it again so many times because my mind wandered. I didn't care about the characters. I did want to know how it ended but when I knew I just didn't care.
It was an interesting idea and as a short story would've been amazing. But as a longer novel - dull as ditchwater. Sorry Stephen.
the master
the master storyteller and one of his apprentices produces the magic yet again
another King triumph!!
When a Pair of Kings is a Winning Hand!
Ever since I read The Stand I've wanted Stephen King to deliver those kind of epic scale, huge cast adventures. He's done it a few times since, most recently with Under the Dome and now he and his son Owen have delivered another one with Sleeping Beauties.
It's not quite the same of course. It does deliver all the pillars of King's writing such as the creepy side, the very relatively ordinary people and how their twisted depths suffuse the story. It does also include scenes that will make you wince as well as considerable violence and gore.
However, it has a slightly more literary feel and some tender and touching moments. The scene where one of the women finally loses her battle against sleep is particularly touching. That basic premise of that mysterious illness that causes women to fall asleep and go "somewhere else" signals an exploration of what femininity and masculinity really mean. Could either work without the other? The Kings deliver their verdict.
The narration for a book this length is always going to be extremely important. You could, if you want to pick faults with Marin Ireland's performance.
