Sleeping Beauties

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Call Number: Fiction / King, Stephen, Adult Book / Fiction / Horror / King, Stephen
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

In this spectacular father-son collaboration, 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 wildly provocative and gloriously absorbing.

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Haunting submitted by jessicampace on August 1, 2018, 10:05am A very thought provoking premise with some tragic moments and some gore. I could tell when it was Stephen King writing versus his less experienced son, but overall the writing was fine. It was a bit drawn out but still compelled me to finish. Spooky and haunting!

Stephen King submitted by avrogers1 on July 9, 2019, 5:45pm I think he's a fantastic writer, but man do his books give me the creeps!