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Sleeping Beauties

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

©2017 Owen King and Stephen King (P)2017 Simon & Schuster Audio Fantasy Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction

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I loved this book right from the start. very easy to see it as a tv series.

wonderful book

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Was disappointed by this novel. Two Kings! Would have thought twice as good but I don't t think so. It kept straying away from the main theme and I actually got opted. I usually love Stephen King books. Quite upset I wasn't thrilled with this one.

Dissappointrd

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I always, always want a new Stephen King book to be of the standard of The Stand or Under The Dome. This reminded me of a number of previous King books, and I found myself thinking haven’t we been down this road before

Not King’s best work

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I had something of a difficult experience with this book, but I am not exactly sure why. I struggled with it in the beginning, loving the book, but it seemed to escape me all the same. Started again, and stopped again, halfway through.

Then I reread (for the fiftieth time...) the good book 'It' - and somehow that provided a key into finishing this one. And I liked it quite a bit.

Maybe listening to it helped - what a great performance! Really entertaining and supporting the story.

A lot of the theme's that are touched on in It return here. Men abusing women? Just ask Beverly Marsh. Children playing a key part? Well, ask all the losers club. Some decent adults, sometimes where you expect them the least - they are in all Kings stories. And of course there is someone (something?) supernatural. Strange, scary - and always with beauty in it. (No, there's no beauty in Pennywise, but remember the turtle! And how that one shows up in The Dark Tower)

So a revisiting of old stories and storylines, for sure - but so are all Kings books. The way that story gets retold is what keeps you hooked, even (or maybe especially) in the always meandering back- and sidestories. For me, they are the true genius of King. And apparently that is a family thing.

What parts are written by Stephen, and what parts by Owen? That's playing the same game I played in Black House, or The Talisman. It doesn't matter - the co-working is also just a continuation of something that King did earlier.

I certainly are going to read/listen to this book again. Maybe I will find what kept me from finishing it in one sitting.

Probably something I knew instinctively, from the start, and didn't want to acknowledge. Maybe it has something to do with me being a man.

Go read/listen to this. It's worth your time.

Vintage Stephen King - with hope for a future

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great characters, from 2 authors where it's impossible to distinguish
gripping storyline
great narration, love the accents

riveting story from Messiurs King!

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If not quite up there with the all-time classic Stephen King novels, this a cracking read nonetheless and a pleasing return to his dark fantasy/horror roots. I would definitely be interested in reading any future collaboration between King Snr/Jnr. Also Marin Ireland’s narration is among the best I’ve heard - a real talent.

Comeback King

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Not my fave Stephen King book but engaging all the same. I've always found him good at writing from a woman's perspective, a concept that I feel a lot of male authors fail to grasp. I loved that this was a collaboration between himself and his son and found myself wondering often about the writing processes behind that. So it was great to hear the conversation between the writers at the end. (I say 'conversation'.....it's only about 5 minutes in duration, but gave me some answers to those questions I'd been mentally asking).
Whilst I'm definitely a fan of audiobooks- busy lifestyle/job means I rarely have time to actually sit down and read, hence I listen whilst driving and before going to sleep- I can't help feeling that this is one of those stories that I'd have become far more involved in, had I actually been reading the prose.
But, as a massive Stephen King fan, this one gets a thumb up from me!

Great concept, well developed characters

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I was very pleasantly surprised by this book. It feels like classic Stephen King. Inclined to read Owen's other stuff now.

Great story. Well performed. Surpringly feminist.

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loved it will listen again
highly recommended
strange my first review never made it to here.

smash the patriarchy save the world

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loved every minute. a great collaboration from Stephen and Owen king. enjoyed the narrator too

great

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