Book: Sleeping Beauties

 Book: Sleeping Beauties

Author: Stephen King and Owen King

Pages: 720

This is my 155th book for the year

This is the story of a future that women go to sleep and are shrouded in a gauze that acts like a cocoon.  A woman named Eve Black comes on the scene in a small town to confront some men who are treating a young woman badly.  She is arrested and soon it becomes apparent that she can sleep and wake unlike every other woman in the world.  Eve asks to be safe and if it happens, the women will all soon wake and be fine.  But if she dies - they all die.  Some of the men try to disturb the sleeping women, but it is met with violent consequences and then the women just fall back to sleep.  Many women do everything they can to stay awake - not knowing what will happen to them when they fall asleep.  Some men want to keep the women safe.  Others just want to kill Eve.  In a now all male world - violence abounds.

This was a pretty good book.  It is long.  I started to want to get to the end with about 200 pages left.  It started out strong and I was anxious to see where it was going as the women started to fall asleep.  It was an interesting concept - especially with what happened when you woke the women, but it then didn't turn into a "zombie" situation - the women just went back to sleep.  The world of the sleeping women was interesting, but the story of the remaining men became a bit of a slog. I did struggle a bit about Eve's part in all of it - I think it wasn't well explained.  If only the women of this town had fallen asleep - not the entire world - she would have fit better in my opinion.

Stars: 4