Author: Stephen King & Owen King
Genre: Thriller/Fiction/Science Fiction
Summary: 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, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare.
One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world.
Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
Age Category: Adult
Chapters Reviewed: Complete Book
•MY REVIEW•
•Category 1- cover & description•
The cover and summary are great.
5/5
•Category 2- word choice, punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence & paragraph structure•
The word choice is superb. Everything was grammatically correct in this book.
20/20
•Category 3- plot, setting, background/stories, characters•
The plot was interesting and the characters are raw and realistic. The ending wasn't very good though.
28/30
•Category 4- writing styles & pace of the story•
The writing style is unique. The pace of the story was a little slow.
13/15
•Category 5- details & descriptions•
Beautifully detailed and well described. You could really picture every single setting and every single person of this book.
20/20
•Category 6- originality & overall creativity•
Super creative and original. This book was very interesting and unique.
10/10
96/100