Unfortunately, Sleeping Beauties is one of King's worst novels. The plot has promise but a 700 page novel can't survive on plot alone. Typically, King is a master of character development and the characters carry his longer novels (like It, The Stand, and to a lesser extent Under the Dome) but in Sleeping Beauties his charters are universally either unlikable or worse, uninteresting. Sleeping Beauties is an obnoxious book because of the characters. They don't feel real and their actions come off as ridiculous. This is an unenjoyable novel in most respects.