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A review by alykat_reads
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King, Owen King
slow-paced
3.0
A book where women fall asleep, wake up in a parallel world without men, and written by my favorite author. This should have been a slam dunk for me, but it wasn't. I still like the concept of it.. Like omg please let me fall asleep, have a nice little cocoon be woven around me, and then wake up in a world free of men, pls I'm begging.
This book was just kind of.. boring. It felt like it took forever to get into the actual story. Could have easily cut 50 pages from the backstory as I don't feel like it served any purpose to the rest of the story. There were lots of characters so when the women started falling asleep and we then got into the alternate worlds, this only added to the confusion. Eventually I did get my sea legs under me, but it took far too long.Then when the women chose to leave that world and go back to the men.. EW. Ruined it. It helped a little that the men learned how much they needed women and started actually appreciating them (after men got to live out their violent fantasies of burning women while they were sleeping, might I add 😑😤) I just don't think the men suffered enough in this world; they were still the ones causing the suffering and not enough of the victims of it.
Not his greatest work. Not sure if that's due to the co-writing with Owen or what, but not one of my favorites from SK.
This book was just kind of.. boring. It felt like it took forever to get into the actual story. Could have easily cut 50 pages from the backstory as I don't feel like it served any purpose to the rest of the story. There were lots of characters so when the women started falling asleep and we then got into the alternate worlds, this only added to the confusion. Eventually I did get my sea legs under me, but it took far too long.
Not his greatest work. Not sure if that's due to the co-writing with Owen or what, but not one of my favorites from SK.